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ATHENS OHIO 

JUNE 14th and 15th 1904 



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THE ATHENS 

HOME COMING 

REUNION 




June F\mrteenth and Fifteenth. 1904 



( ilNri'll.ll) AM) l-.DIIM) in 
C A 1' 1 A IN A . H . M AT VOX 



IRIN7ED AT 

THE WINIHROP PRESS 
32 AKD 34 Lakavettk Place 




'2. (tEOHCiE a. BEATON. Chmhman 

1. General Charles H. Grosven^or .". Major L. M. Jewett 

4. Frank S. Roach 7. Captain J. B. Allen 5. Hon. Aaron E. Price 

6. \V. B. Golden Ht. Hon. D. H. Moore 8. Henrv O'Bleness . 

9. James Dickev Brown II. Dh. W. .\. Alderman 




WELCOME! 

ro THE ATHENS HOiME-CO.M IXC; 

By .1. 15. Ci.vYioN. 

WfkoiiK' to llic AtluMis HDino-coiiiiiif,'.' Ve OKI Alhonians. AVelcoinel 
■■'riiis fond altaclinu'iit to tlii' well-known placi-. 
Whence first we sfarfed into life's long race. 
Maintains its hold with such unfailing swav 
^Y^^ j.^^^l ij ^.^^^^ j^^ ^^^^ ^^^j ^j ^^^^^ latest day. "' 

The ''Atliens llorm-coniing"" is hut the full development of the aljove sentiment — a sentiment 
so deeply implanted in our nalun- that it remains firm as a rock even when beaten U|)on by the 
care.s and sorrows of years. While the reunion of friends and old-time residents at certain points 
has often taken place, yet rarely, if ever, have all the details of such a meeting been so well planned 
or executed upon so broad and generous a basis as now. To the native born Athenians, and to 
those who have spent |)art of their lives within the classic town, an invitation to return has aroused 
at once the enthusiasm of years gone by, and has kindled anew the smouldering fires of memory. It 
has meant an opportunity to walk again the familiar streets, to look upon the faces of the living, 
or to stand in silence by the graves of the <lead. It has given one more opportunity to cla.sp the 
hand of the dear friend you have not seen for years and exchange with him the record of your sorrows 
and your joys. It has given one more opportunity to see the glorious orb of day rise in his s[)lendor 
over " Kes.singer's Hill," or sink, bathed in glory, beyond "Ilerrold's Mill." 

If you have been a student of the old O. I'., the pioneer college of the great Ohio ( dinpanys 
Purchase, another interest will call you back, and once here, you will rejoice, with all the fricncis of 
the university, at the great prosperity and the firm foundation upon which it now rests. 

It is inevital)le that, in our memories and our loves, we cling to the old traditions and methods 
of the past, but "the old scenes are not what they used to be." In the steady niar<-h of jirogress 
across our broad land we have not been lagging. 

We have exchanged the wood and coal of bygone days for gas, the nuid of the ini|)assable streets 
for the clean, hard pavement, even the old "Oaken Bucket " for the bountiful .su|)ply of water 
in every home. For the occasional chat with an old ac<|uaintance, we use the quick and ra|)id lan- 
guage of the mysterious electric wire. Nor have these wonderful changes taken place in our little 
city alone. The farmer now opens his daily morning mail, handed to him promptly by the uniformed 
agent of Uncle Sam. As he drives at rapid gait to town in midwinter or midsummer, note the absence 
of the patient jilodding ox-team and the presence of the comfortable .surrey; see the neatly arranged 
and well-painted house, with its barns and buildings all proclaiming the ])rogressive mind of the 
owner. Thus we are glad to present to you the proof that Athens during all these years has kept 
well up to the head of the procession in the advancement of material surroundings and mental culture. 

.Vnd so. Home-coming Friends, we bid you enjoy to the uttermost the full measure of this 
social reunion. Cast aside all care and worry, and store your memory with bright scenes and happy 
thoughts. On the |)ages of this Souvenir .Mbuni you will find the features of those who have borne 
the "heat and burden of the day." but whose reconl is made up and tlii' last entry tinished. \nA 
you will also find here the faces of those who stand to greet you, to welcome your coining and to 
aid in your enjoyment. 

If some deej) half-forgotten memory of familiar scenes and faces has been awakenetl into 
new life through the |)ages of this .\lbum, it has served its purpose. Mav the memories grow 
and strengthen with the days, binding the hearts of the old Athenians closer, so that each year 
they may turn their steps toward the okl town, nestled among the hills, there to meet the old 
friends and re-live the the precious memories of ".\uld Lang Syne." 



HOME COMING 




By K. C. ^^'o()D^voRTH 

.ia.fi.ttciiil Editor i>j The Atlicii.f Mcssi'»c;cr 



St^-w England idea Iransplantcd to the Wcstl One week of the year set apart for 
the return, not of the prodigal son, but of those who have been more or less successful 
in tlie business and the profession to which they have devoted their best energy! 
A return to tlieir native liearth-stone. from whicli they departed years ago full of 
hope, aspiration and ambition — a return to renew the buoyancy of youth, to 
make stronger the golden chain of friendship and to revel again in tiic old-time 
scenes, whose images of sujiernal beauty are reflected by the mirror of memory ! 

Home-coming is a permanent social institution in the Xew England Slates. 
w. ..iiuoiiiii Their sons and their daughters had gone forth to the four quarters of the globe to 

take part in the fierce competitive struggle for supremacy, and while some carved their names on 
enduring adamant and others wrote their names upon the sands, they were not forgotten, and upon 
each annual recurrence of the feast and reunion day a sincere and loving welcome was given their 
return. 

This fraternal custom, which has become so popular in the East, has gradually worked its way 
toward the West, and as a result the first home-coming to be celebrated in Ohio is now becoming a 
part of the illustrious annals of historic .\thens. Conceived in the mind of one former Athenian, 
who has made his energy and ability felt in the business and commercial world, the plan has been 
brought to a happy fruition, and a social custom of the East has been made permanent in the West. 

In this reunion should be found the culmination of the fondest hopes. Though the returning 
sons and daughters may linger but a day, the event should be fraught with that felicity that marks 
the gathering of the family, at joyous Christmas time, around the parental hearth: and as the father 
breathes a fervent benediction may these words be whispered in accents sweet anfl low — 

"I've wander'd long and wander'd far, 
.\nd never have I met 
In all this western land, 
\ spot so lovely yet." 

.\nd whv not." .\thens and the surrounding country are leeniiiig «ilii the |iietiires(|ue. Without 
that cultivation of the aesthetic faculties which made it possible for a Ruskin to discern marvelous 
loveliness in every glided cloud that floated .serenely in the upper deep, beauty may be seen in the 
rugged .\thens County hills, decked in all the refreshing richness of the verdure of June; in the valleys, 
with their smile of promise and of plenty: in the caves, where the denizens of the wood find a safe 
retreat; in the miniature waterfalls, that sing nature's soothing lullaby: in the woodlands, w-here the 
mystic .Eolian harp is tuned to the melody of the birds: in the field and dell, where the perfume 
of the flowers lulls the senses into luxurious repose; in the .summer clouds, that sail in the sea of blue; 
in the parks and the crystal lakes, prepared by a generous State to lure back a waning mind to the 
throne of reason: in the picture.sfiue campus, where an institution for a full century has contributed 
to the intellectual growth of the nation, and in the tortuous windings of the Hocking, which, laving 
fieM and rock and tree and hill, finallv loses itself in the waters of the broad Ohio. 



COMMITTEE ON RECEPTION. 




3. Mrs. W. B. Golden, Chairman 
1. W. K. Scott 2. Frank Logan 

4. J. H. Cline 5. Nancy Dew 

6. H. H. Manning "i- Judge Joseph M. \\ ood 



I'llsllillj; illM.\C 111.' UOodcl llills. 

Tlie sun willi joy llie vallev fills. 
And va|>'rv mist of nifilit distills. — 
In the |)c;u-i'fnl II<>ckin<:. 

Past the forest with i,'or;re(>us leaves. 
Past many fields with <;oldeii sheavi's, 
P;isl the mines, where the (oiler heaves, — 
i-'l(>\\ s t!ie lnini|nil Itnekinir- 

At brilliant noon, when summer's sun 
Its slow descending has begun, 
.Viid rays tiieir fiercest work have done — 
Shines the face of Hocking. 

'riiroiigh bosky grove and verdant dell — 
Past ri|)|iling brook, which showers swell- 
Past rock and moor and citadel — 
Flows the placid Hocking. 

Gem'd with Ijeauty of flower and tree^ 
Wreathed in gifts of a nature free — 
Rich as vales of Yosemite — 
I< the fertile Hocking. 



Home-coming is intended to reunite old friends whose various duties have caused wide separa- 
tion, to make new friendships possible and to visit again the scenes of their early struggles. It is 
to give them an opportunity to recall old memories and experiences in Athens, interspersed with 
the stirring incidents which have coine into their lives since they left their native roof-tree to go 
out and conc)uer worlds of their own. Here again they may picture their loves and liopes and fears, 
revel in the joys of their second youth and dwell among the castles in the air which every man and 
woman must build at some period of their careers. Here again let the many returning wanderers 
spend a day and rest for a night; the same stars will gem the sky and .sing in the sweetest poetry 
the songs of the univer.se to them. The countless sapphires of the night will glow with the same 
unrivalled radiance, and the moon, set in a silver throne, with a background of azure, will throw a 
panoply of glory over a world glowing under the touch of the magic rays. To them, who are not 
surfeited with the cares of life, living and human woe, we say return again and go forth in these 
perfect nights in June as they were wont to do, and not list to nature's teachings, but revel in the 
vision of a painting where every shadow of a shade of color finds faultless blending, and where earth 
and sky are in attune with the harniiinics of the tireless spheres. 



The purple tints and flowers make the meadows all abloom, 

.\nd the sunshine's made to garlands in nature's silver loom: 

Here the crystal rivers sparkle, the skies are just as blue. 

.VI! the loveliness in nature is snu'ling loveiv tfio; 

Health is found in all the woodlands, here bubbles forth onr uiirlli 

Here the sun<hinc falls as bri'ditlv as anvwhere on earth. 




I. Ge-nkhal Chahlks II. Gkovexor, Chaikmax 
Cnnis V. Harris 3. Fred W. Bush 4. C. H. Brysox 



Committee On 



Fonj Parade. 




1. E. B. Armstrong, Chairman 
2. Frantz Woodworth 3. Samuel Warren 

4. Mrs. Jesse Warren 




Chakles William StjpEn 
A.B., A.M., Ph.D., LL.D. 



IN THE BEGINNING 

Hy Cii.Mii.ivs \Vii.Li.\M Si I'KH. A. n., A. M.. I'll. 1)., I,L. I)., 

Processor of Greek and Diaii a/' the Collcr/c of Liberal Arl.s. 

Oiily a little over a century lias gone into the irrevocable past since some of 
llic more adventurous spirits of the east of us bejjan to turn their attention to 
the lands lying beyond the Beautiful River, as the French designated it. In the 
southwest and the .southeast of the Buckeye State this human tide first began to 
overflow the lands newly brought within the Union. The fact, however, is that 
Ohio was the last of five States lying within the Xorthwest Territory to be 
colonized by Europeans. 
The new territory was but sparsely peojiled and the soil whether good, iiidillercnl or bad. was not 
utilized in such a way as to guarantee those who roamed over it against the frer|uent recurrence of 
periods of .serious scarcity and even actual famine. Xothiiig is better known than the fact that tlie 
savages were frequently on the verge of starvation, owing to their improvidence and lack of fore- 
sight, in spite of their small number compared to the extent of the territory which they claimed as 
their own. 

While in a sen.se the newcomers were in search of gold they came not as the Spaniards to the 
south of us, with the determination to dig it from the bowels of the earth, but in order to transmute 
the products of the .soil into the shining metal. Their motive was not even akin to that which 
constrained the sturdy Anglo-Saxons two centuries earlier to seek and to settle the inhospitable shores 
of the New- World. Like them, however, the men and women who moved to another new world, 
they went to stay, to found new homes for themselves, their children and their remoter posteritv. 
The task was arduous, the material obstacles to be overcome were great. But the rewards and 
compensations in prospect kept them firm in their resolution to conquer, and few turneil back. 

Ohio was believed by the people in the East to be literally a land flowing with milk and honey. ) 
The soil had been rej)orted to be richer by nature than that of most countries by art. The plains 
and meadows it was believed would feed millions of cattle, winter and summer. It was sup- 
posed that in the swamps cranberries grew wild, and that when horses were ridden across the country 
they were dyed to the knees with the ruddy juice of the wild strawberry. Albeit, in tho.se days 
nobody suspected that the real wealth of .southeastern Ohio was not in the soil but under it. There 
was some excuse for the high hopes entertained by the dwellers on the comparatively barren soil 
of New England; but it is certain that one thing produced a vigorous crop there, that was the 
imagination of the prospective .settlers in the West. Almost everything that heart could wish 
for sprang up luxuriantly in the fertile fields of fancy. 

'I'liough the hopes of the founders were not realized in their lifcliiiie, and many of them donljt- 
less laid down their weary bodies for the Last .sleep in bitter disappointment, there is no doubt if they 
could rise from their graves to-day to see what their descendants have wrought they would feel 
that they had not toiled and sacrificed themselves for a delusion. Ohio has long since, as we.reckon 
time in this Western country, become one of the great commonwealths. For niauv vears it has 
oecupie<l a foremost place among its sister States: while with its aliundaiit resources, mineral, 
agricultural and intellectual, its career can be truly said to have only begun. 

The pioneers came chiefly from Connecticut and Mas.sachusetts, but the contiguous parts of 
New Hampshire, Vermont and New York also contribute<l a share. There seems to have been hardly 
moH' than a sprinkling from thi- rest of the older Stales. 




4. Thomas Cotton 5. Samuel L. McCuxe, Chairman 6. J. B. Clayton 
7. I. M. Foster 8. Carl Stickney 9. Rev. G. Walton King, D. D. 



W liik' llio scttliTs ill OIliu (iillcriil in many respects from the earlier ones in New England, 
there was one feature which botli had in cnmnion: solicitude for the higher education. To us it 
may seem strange that plans should he formulated for a university in a country before it had a 
civilized inhabitant and before any jjrovision had l)een made for j)reparing students to enter the 
same; yet tliis had been the general policy in most of the older States, a [)olicy that in some of them 
has been but recently (le|)arled from. Il was held. Ilial there must be teachers before there can be 
.schools and that the only place where teachers can be pre|)ared for their work is in colleges and 
universities. Out of this condition of things grew what are now often designated "old-fasliioned" 
academies, institutions that were intended to fit at least a portion of their scholars, for entrance 
upon more advanced studies in the colleges. 

The Ohio University, at Athens, was founded by Manasseh Cutler, who had before him as models 
Harvard and Yale, more particularly the latter, when he made provision for his university in the 
wilderness. So far was he in advance of the existing conditions that its general j)lan had been 
outlined a decade before the close of the eighteenth century. It could not, however, be opened on 
the most modest .scale before 1809, that is, with one teacher and three students. The preceptor, 
as he was designated, was the Reverend Jacob Lindley, a native of Pennsylvania and a graduate 
of Princeton. He was required to teach English. Latin and Greek, mathematics, rhetoric, logic, geog- 
raphy, natural and moral [ihilosophy. The l)oard of trustees had adopted a course of study as earlv 
as June, 1808, but work did not begin until June 1, 1809, when three students, one of whom w-as 
John Perkins, of Athens, reported for duty. 

What the population of Athens was at this time we have no means of knowing. A few settlers 
had reached the site a.s early as 1797. Two years later an act was passed by the first territorial 
legislature, then in session in Cincinnati, for the incorporation of the village. This act is dated 
December, 1799, and provided a form of government for the second municipality in Ohio. There 
can hardly have been more than a dozen families on the ground, for as late as 18'20 the entire town- 
ship contained only about two hundred households. 

The first post-office in Athens was established outside of it, if the expression be permissible, 
just beyond the east bridge. The first lawyer in Athens was Artemas Sawyer. He was a gradu- 
ate of Harvard and a man of fine literary attainments. He arrived in 1808, was apjiointed prose- 
cuting attorney in ISIO. and two years later elected assistant to Mr. Lindley. the preceptor in the 
.\cademy. 

In spile of its modest beginnings anil notwithstanding the adverse intiuences against wiiieh it 
had long to contend, it is doubtful whether any of the older colleges had a development equal to tlu' 
Ohio University at Athens during the first hundred years. It starts upon its second centurv with 
double the resources its founder had in view when he was engaged in making provision for its support. 
Manasseh Cutler was no ordinary man. Graduated from Yale college in 1765, he engaged in 
the whaling bu.siness, meanwhile preparing himself for the practice of the law. Later he studied 
theology with his father-in-law, the Rev. Thos. Balch. Toward the close of the Revolutionarv War, 
finding that the people of his parish were without a physician, he applied himself to the studv of 
medicine and was licensed as a practitioner. In 17S(i he became associated with a number of 
Revolutionarv officers who had decided to .settle in the West. A contract was made with the 
general government for a tract of one and a half million acres in the southeastern part of Ohio. 

In December, 1787, the expedition, consisting of sixty men, left Cutler's hou.se and reached 
.Marietta on the 7th of .\pril the following year. Cutler made the trip in a sulky, covering 7.50 miles 
in twenty-nine days. Though offered a commission as judge of the supreme court of the Xortli- 
west Territory, he returned home in a short time. He was later a member of the State legislature 
and of Congress. The remainder of his days was passed in his pastorate until his death in 1823. 
.Notwithstanding his multifarious activities, he is best known and will be longest remembered 




1. W. K. Scott 

4. D. H. Moore 

7. W. A. Bower 

10. Albert Joxes 



David Thompson, Chairman 

5. Mrs. F. L. Preston S. Captaix J. B. Allen 

8. Miss Mary Slattery 6. Dr. F. P. ^NIcV^ay 

11. Mrs. Mary C. De Steigier 9- Ray Lash 

I'i. David Peoples 13. D. M. Burchfield 



throiitjli liis draft of the ordinance for the ffovernment of tlie Nortliwest Territory. It was 
adopted \>\ Confjress without a single alteration. Tin's famous document is so well known tliat 
it needs to be only referred to here. Dr. Cutler's son Jervis was one of Ohio's pioneers and 
for a long time resided in the State. Though neither Dr. Cutler nor his children lived to see the 
hopes he entertained for the university he had founded expand into realization, it may he fittingly 
said of him that he builded better than ho knew. 

.\niong the leading lawyers who practiced in the courts of Athens county were Thomas Ewing 
and S. F. Vinton. The latter represented the district in Congress for eleven terms. He was born in 
Massachusetts in 1792 and graduated from Williams College in 1814, having been for a short time a 
college mate of poet VV. C. Uryaiit. At the age of seventy he was appointed by President 
Lincoln to appraise the slaves that had been emancipated in the District of Columbia. lie died 
shortly after in the City of Wa.shington. 

The most widely known person connectetl with the early years of the Ohio University was 
Thomas Ewing. He began to attend the Academy in Athens in 1809. He continued to be a stu- 
dent of the institution off and on until 181j, when he received a degree. He studied law with 
General Beecher in Lancaster for fourteen months, and was admitted to the bar in August, 1816. 
In 1830 he was elected to the I'nited States Senate. He soon became one of the most 
influential members of that body. U])on the inauguration of President Harrison he became 
Secretary of the Treasury, but held this position only a few months as the cabinet was reconstructed 
by Tyler. In 1849 Mr. Ewing was apjjointed by President Taylor as the first Secretary of the In- 
terior. The following year he again entered the Senate, having been appointed to succeed Thomas 
Corwin, who had become a member of the President's Cabinet. At the expiration of his term he 
retired from public life and resumed the practice of the law in Lancaster. All accounts agree that 
he was the most distinguished member of the Ohio bar and one of the foremost lawyers of the nation. 
After his death, in 1871, Mr. Blaine wrote of him : "With no little familiarity and asso- 
ciation with the leading men of the day, I can truly say that I never met with one who impressed 
me .so profoundly." 

Another distingui.shed per.son connected with the early years of the Ohio University was John 
Brough. He was the son of an Englishman who came over with Blennerhassett in 180(i. About 
18'3.j. at the age of fourteen, Brough came to Athens as a student, setting type mornings and even- 
ings to pay his way. He left the university before graduating in order to edit a newspaper in Peters- 
burg, Va. Later he occupied a similar position in Marietta and Lancaster. After holding several 
political offices he purchased the "Phenix" in Cincinnati and changed the name to "Enquirer." 
While in that city he practiced law and wrote editorials in his usual trenchant style. In 1801 he 
went into business, removed to Cleveland and was urged to accept the nomination for Governor 
on the Union-Republican ticket, but declined. Two years later, the conditions being now very 
different, he accepted the nomination for the same office, and, considering the population of Ohio, 
was elected over his opponent, C. L. Vallandingham, by the largest majority ever given to a candi- 
date in the history of the State. He was distinctly Ohio's "W'ar governor." As a speaker he was 
fluent and impassioned; as a patriot, sincere and unselfish. He died a few months after the close 
of the War he had so vigorouslv supported. 




1. W. H. GoLuii.N, Chairman- 
;5. Miss Mahy O'Blexess 5. Miss Grace Stickney 



i. Miss May Keah 

2. Mrs. J. I). Brown 




'^. Hakhv M. Roach 

.?. R. W. Roach 

4. John Finstehwald 

.-,. ,1, 15. Rose 



I. John C. Campbell, (haihmw 

(i. George H. Jixod 1H. Fhank E. Goldsberry 

7. Khaxk S. Roach II. Chakles Demolet 

S. Haul C". Logan 1'2. George Beasley 

!». II. I). Henry I.'i. J. 15. FrLTOx 




JOHN BROUGH 

A student at the Ohio University and the famous 

"War Governor" of Ohio during the 

"War of the Rebellion" 




THOMAS EWIXG 

One of the first graduates of the Ohio University elected 

to the U. S. Senate from Ohio in 1830, and one of the 

most notabie lawyers that State has ever produced 




ROthS ON NUUTH Ull.l., ArHKN> 



HISTORIC ATHENS 



EXTRACTS 
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A. B. WiLKHi (deccaswU 



FROM AX ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE OPEX- 
G OF THE CITY HALL BY THE LATE 
A. B. WALKER. 

The occasion whicli we celebrate is peculiarly fitted to direct our minds 
and lead our thoughts to reminiscences hearing upon the history ami growth 
of our town. 

Every such occasion places us on a height where we can glance back on 
the path already traversed. 

Since the shades of the native forests fell on this spot a momentous and 
salutary change has taken place in the physical, intellectual and social condi- 
tion, that is, in the civilization of this people. Let us, therefore, examine in 
brief some of the causes that have operated in producing Athens. 



HOW THE SEED 
WAS PLANTED 

On the evening of the (itii of \\m\. A. D. 17SS. during the Spring rains and enveloped in a heavy 
mist which then hung over the river, a little flotilla of one large boat, one flat boat and three canoes 
dropped quietly down the beautiful Ohio, and lodged on a point at the mouth of the Muskingum. 
It was a winged seed which contained the germ of the subsequent civilization of this broad State. 

Under the judicious command of Gen. Rufus Putnam, a Massachusetts colony had come 
to occupy the lands granted by Congress and known as the "Ohio Company's Purchase." in the 
interminable forests of the then "Great Northwestern Territory." 

This company was the first to invade the solitude of this Western worlil. and had all the "world 
before them from where to choose." 




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THE FOIK N.VrrHAI. 
DIVISIONS OK OHIO 

Of tlie four tmtiiral iii\i>iiin> cil' Oliiu. viz: the I.iikc ccuiilry, the Miami coiititrv, tlie Scioti) 
counlrv , anil the Muskingum country, tin y wisely, as time has jjroved, deeided in favor of the Mus- 
kingum country, which gave to our section of the State priority of occupation. 

The letters ])atent granted by Congress to the Ohio Company gave them about one million 
acres, Iving in the form of a right angled triangle, with its hy|)othenuse on the Ohio River and the 
oi)]>osite vertex fourteen miles northwest of the present town of Logan. All this tract lay within 
the limits of Washington County. Indeed, at that time the ambitious boundaries of ^Yashington 
County reached out to the headwaters of tin' liij,' Miami, and rncirclcd the present sites of Porfs- 
moulli. Clcvcl.-uid anil Columbus. 




HOME OP" THE L.M'E .IIDGE .lOHN WELCH 



THE SAGACITY OF THE 
OHIO COMPAXY 

The selection of the Ohio Company has been made the l)Utt of nnicli ridicule by those who 
-subsequently descended the Ohio River in their flat boats to occu|)y the more inviting plains of 
southwestern Ohio, and the rough exterior of this tract has won for it in later years the doubtful 
distinction of the "Hucklelierry Knobs:" but, since the development of its vast mineral wealth, as 
yet but j)artially appreciated, the sagacity, or, at least, the good fortune, of its early purchasers has 
been fully vindicated. 

The auspicious location of our town is more than evinci'd when we consider it in its wider geo- 
graphical connections. The Scioto and the Muskingum riv<'rs form a parallelogram, which, lying 



north and south, or nearly so, is bisected diagonally by the Mocking River, having its source 
near Columbus on the Scioto, 90 miles above the nioulli of the latter and emi)tying into the Ohio 
only a few miles below the mouth of the ^luskinguin. The Hooking, with its tributaries, con- 
tains one of the most beautiful parts of Ohio, and Alliens County enjoys the happy distinction of 
occupying the preferred portion of this charming valley, while the town of Athens is the central 
point in the valley, as it is the middle point l)etween Parkersburg and Marietta on the east and 
Chillicothe on the west, ujxm llic Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 

THE VERY FHiST 
SETTLEMENT 

The very first settlement of Athens County was made here at Athens in 1797. The reason for 
selecting this particular .site and this particular name, "Athens," will appear by referring to its 
early establishment. 

To .secure the early occupation of their lands was a prime ol)jeot with the agents of the Ohio 
Company. To further this, as well as to lend their patronage to the cause of liberal education, 
they determined to found an institution in the interior of their tract to which certain lands should 
be granted as an endowment. In that year, accordingly, surveys of the townships and sections 
were made, and Townships 8 and 9, of Range 14, were designated as "college lands." In 1797 
there was a new influx of immigration at ^larietta from the east, and taking this tide at its ebb, 
they established a new settlement on the Hocking at this point. 

Easy access by the river and that general fertility and picturesqueness which invited first the 
occupation of water courses, may have fixed this bluff and the adjacent bottoms as an eligible 
site for a settlement. The haste to found a college would prompt to a selection of the most accessible 
place, which at the same time should be sufficiently interior. 

THE COLLEGE AND THE TOWN- 
PARENT AND CHILD 

Thus it appears the college and town were mutually jjarent and child to each other: for while 
the growing village was intended to become a source of revenue and nourishment to its infant charge, 
the university, on the other hand, became a leading and efficient cau.se in hastening the inception of 
a corporate town, in giving it a local habitation so desirable and a name linking it with the choicest 
associations of learning and literature in the distant past. 

ATHENS THE SECOND 
OLDEST TOWN IN OHIO 

The county of Athens was not regularly erected into a separate county by legislative enactment 
until the year 1805, eight years after its first settlement. It is singular, Iwivever, in being the second 
counti/ in Ohio, as the toicn of Athens is the second town in the State. Upon the latter fact we may be 
pardoned in indulging a natural pride, since antiquity is no slight element in the historic estimate 
- of a place. The town of Athens was "confirmed and established" under that name, and by an 
act of the "Territorial Legislature, December (>th, 1800." By direction of the same authority 
a plat of the ground had been made the year before, designating the streets and building lots, with 
the public and college grounds. 

This work was done by Rufus Putnam, Benjamin Ives Giliman and Jonathan Stone. At tliis 
time Marietta had been in existence as an established town less than three weeks. Cincinnati ua-s 
not thus established until more than a year affcruard. exactly a year and fourteen days later; so that, 
as the fads lie, our own town, icas the pioneer town, not of CJIiiii only, hut of the whole Xorthwest, being 
preceded by Marietta alone, which was on the river. 



ATHENS IX 1800 

NEW SETTLERS COMING IN 

At this time, December, 1800. there were not more than five or six cabins on the town [>\a[. Mr. 
Earhart lived on the brow of the hill where Bings' carriage shop is situated. Otliniel Tuttlehad a 
cabin on the southwest corner of the old grave yard. Dr. Perkins bought this cabin and moved it 
down the road and added it to his own. Solomon Tuttle on the corner of the Atkinson lot opposite 
the Currier homestead. Christian Stevens had a cabin just back of the College Green, and a man 
by the name of Brakefield lived 20 or SO rods east of the southeast corner of the green! Alvin 
Bingham, known by older citizens as "Old Judge Bingham." lived half a mile northeast of where 
A. W. S. Minear resided. 

During the ne.vt four or five years the settlement, though increasing but slowly, received the 
addition of numbers of valuable citizens. 




SOUTH BRIDGE. NE.\R .\THENS, OHIO 



THE FIRST SCHOOL 
HOUSE 



The first school house on the town ])lat was a small brick building, which stood on the site now 
occupied by the city hail. It was built in 1806. David Pratt taught liere several years. Some of 
those who succeeded him in giving shape to the growing thought of the following generations are 
Mrs. Sarah Foster, Miss Sallie Jewett, Rev. James McAboy, Prof. Andrews, Rev. Joseph Marvin, 
Dr. Charles Townsend, Samuel Marsh, Rev. J. W. Stevenson, Miss Haft and others. 

The present admirable system of graded schools was introduced in 1858, and under the efficient 
management of its several superintendents has grown into an institution indispensable to the town. 



THE OLD LOG 
COURT HOUSE 



During about one and a half years after the organization of the county by the State authorities, 
court was held in a room rented for that purpose. In 1807 a hewed-log Court House, "with a brick 
chimney," was erected near the spot of the present one, where courts were held for about ten years. 
During this time of slender resources the school and religious societies made use of the same log 
Court House. 



It was in llic old I-oj; CiMiit Houm- llial II. m. 'rii.Miias K 
received liis first impressions of the workings of thai hiw of whic 
an embellishment and so eminent an ex[)oiin<ler. 

Amont; the distinguished names of tliose formerlv loniu 
mentioned Messrs. Beeeher, Irwin, Hunter, Ewing, l$rasee. 
Stanberry and Medill, of Lancaster: Samuel F. Vinton and 
Simeon Xash, of Gallipolis; General Godtiard and (on vers, 
of Zanesville; William AVoodbridge, Arius Nve and others, 
of ^larietta. (ieneral Dwight Jarvis, a respectable lawyer, 
settled here in 18'2j, and practiced at this bar about .J 
rears, when he removed to Stark countv, Ohio. 



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EARLY ESTABLISIIMKXT 
OF CHURCHES 

The establishment of the Methodist church here ante- 
dates that of any society. Rev. Mr. Quinn, on a mission- th; •'old swimming hole." hocki.\g hivkr 
arv tour, first preached at Athens in ]800. Subsequently 

Peter Cartwright and the late Bishop Morris, both celebrated in the M. K. church, preaciud on 
stated occasions. 

During the early years of this century they held their meetings at ditt'crent houses, but in lSlt> 
or 1813 they built a brick church on the lot then owned by Prof. Young. The present church 
edifice was erected in 1838. 

The Presbyterian Society was organized in 1809, and first held its meetings in the brick school 
house, but afterward in the Court House until 1828, when the present church was built, at which 
time the .society was first incorporated. 



THE FIRST NEWSPAPER 
IN ATHENS 

'l"hc first newspaj)er in Athens was the "Athens Mirror and Literary Register." commenced 

in I8'2o by Hon. .^. G. Brown. The "Mirror" 
was a political and literary paper of 16 pages, 9 by 
■"> inches, and was printed on a wooden press with 
a stone bed, with four j)u!Is to each sheet. Its 
publication was contiiuic<l five years, during part 
of which time Go\ernor John Brough, then a 
young man, was employed in its office. The 
" Mirror " was succeeded by the " Western 
Spectator, " and that by the " Hocking Valley 
Gazette" edited by N. H. Van Vorhes. Mr. Van 
^'orhes enlarged the pa])er, which, through se\eral 
changes in its management .since, has continued to 
prosper until the present time, and the "Athens 
Messenger," as it is now called, ranks among the best 
county papers in this State. 
The ".Mhcns County Journal" was established in 1870. giving to .-Vthens a .second paper of 
influence and high standing, which has alwavs been ably editeil. 




LOOKING son 



SCENES IN ATHENS, OHIO 




3. County Court House, Athens, Ohio 



4. Hotel Berry, Athens, Ohio 



THE MANUFArTURE 
OF SALT 

The pressing necessity for s:ilt in tin- early (ia\> caused lal)ciiiiiu> Joiiriieys. first to 
Muskingum valley at Duncan's Kalis, where only a stinted su|)|)ly could Kc obtained, and 
the product was very inferior, costing sometimes six 

dollars ($0.00) a bushel. The "Scioto Salt Licks," at , 

Jackson, proved a better source of supply for our citizens, 
wliere a better article was obtained at mucli less cost. 
These miniature works for production of salt soon became 
eclipsed by the marvelous production of this necessary article 
on the Kanawha, and from thene<' more ample supplies were 
had at greatly reduced rates. 

About the year 18'-20, a company, formed for that pur- 
jiose, bored a well for salt water, on Sunday Creek, to a con- 
siderable depth, but abandoned the undertaking. Ten or 
twelve years after other parties resumed the boring and soon 
struck a vein of good salt water. This was the first success- 
ful salt well bored in the Hocking Valley. 

The manufacture of salt in this valley soon became a prosperous business, imparting its 
advantages to all the .surrounding interests of the county. To provide for its export with other 
surplus productions, two channels of traffic, the river and the canal, were opened, which, though 
now in disuse, Ijore quite a nrominent ])art in the early commercial interests of our town. 




THE RIVER AND 
THE CANAL 

Athens, with its sur])lus pork, flour, wheat and other agricultural productions, also then 
engaged in the very considerable manufacture of salt, had to make use of the Hockhocking River, as 
it offered the advantages of descending navigation during the spring and autumnal freshets for the 
passage of large flat boats loaded and intended for the Southern markets. To facilitate the transit 

of salt to the interior and central parts of the State, a canal 
down the Hocking valley to Athens, for the double purpose 
of transporting both the salt and coal to the interior of the 
State, was justly deemed itidi.spensalile to all the interests 
^^^^^^«g|^^^^ of the 

^HJimi^B^^^^^^^^^^^^HQ For of the Hocking Canal 

W^^ ^^^V^^^^^^^^^^H '=1''^'''.^' indebted to our late townsman, the Hon. Calvary 

■ ™!^^^^^^^^l ^J^"i'<°<i^- H ^as through his indefatigable endeavors that the 

" ^H^H^^^^H ''"i"*!' ^^"3s chartered and pushed vigorously to completion, in 

"W^^H the face of the most stubborn opposition of the comnu'ssioner 
^^M and a majority of both hou.ses of the Legislature. 

The canal, opening the valley upward, was an outlet 

VIEW ON THK HOCKING RIVER FRO.M >OUrH BRIDGE, . J .1 ■111 ,• r »1 Ci i J il ^l- 

LooKiNQWEST toward the mRulle [)ortion of the State, and the\<estern 

markets generally. The middle .section of this town's his- 
tory presents fewer salient points to the eye, but we may say in general that the several causes 
that oj)erated in giving the place early notoriety were still active in controlling its subsequent 
advancement. 





ladf Atlieiis an attractive jjlace of 



ATHENS iiii: J vi'i: of 

A PIOXKKK TOWN" 

Athens, in it> Ivpe. i> a jiioneer town, anil it is well 

built for one of its ela.ss. Its central position in llie 

tiiiclvly settled sontliern |)art of Ohio: the jjrowth of a 

thrifty aji;riciiltural and stock-raising connty, of wlilcli it 

is the natural focus and constituted seat of justice; the 

seminal principles of a rugged virtue and industry 
unconsciously engrafted upon it 
l)y its founders: the superior intellec- 
tual and moral atmosphere diflused 
hy its .schools, courts, churches, and 
university: its handsome situation 
and pictur<'s(|ue surroundings, always 
residence. 

Few towns have had such a iiold on their pe()|)le as is evinced hy the 
large number of old inhabitants in proportion to the population. This circum- 
stance has given rise to the proverb that "No one can permanently remove 

""o'.Mi.i . vMi'is "■ from Athens who has once tasted the waters of the Hockhocking." 

THE UNIVERSITY— XESTORS 
OF "THOSE DAYS" 

Xo narrative of Athens and this county would be complete without more eN])licit mention of 
the Ohio Company's Purchase and the Ohio University. With feelings of veneration and 
we linger upon the memory of those w-ise-hearted patriots, "Xestors" of that 
energies to the development of a 
country which was their country only 
in a geographi<"il sense. Xoble 
thoughts had they of human usefulness, 
and noble |)lans to compass it. 

Their high design was e(|ualed. 
only, by the deliberation and prudence, 
the thoughtful foresight and [)at!ent 
negotiation which they brought to its 
accomplishment, 
niagion was caught an<l shareil b\ the little ban<l of our embryo Congress. 



wh. 



_ rule 
oted their 





Their honorabl. 
who aciiuitted themselvt 



.'veral acts guaranteeing the purchase, sale, and settle- 



loblv, in their 
ment of the western tracts of that day. 

The bare idea of founding, hundreds of miles away from any center of ci\ ilization. in the heart 
of a dark forest, full as yet of Indians and wild beasts, a university for the future amelioration of a 
State not yet born was of itself a sufficiently grand and 
disinterested conception. 

"Let there be light" is the first conuriand issued 
toward the construction of a new world. 

Under an endownu'ul. at that time and long after 
considered ample, the inslilntion was organized and 
began its work. /' ira.i llir rn-i/ fir.it irc.it of thr Aiic- 
illiiiin/ Mdiintiihi::. 




FOUNTAIX 
AT tOOBr 
IIOUvSK 
CORNER 



It has accomplished noble results, and sent from its halls a large number of able men, who reflect 
credit upon their nourishing mother and honor upon the State. 

Situated in one of the two college townships, Athens may well regard herself as a natural custodian 
of the college allotment or endowment lands: rejoicing in 
its elevation, guarding with jealous interests against any 

encroachments tending to abridge its power, and doing as .^ - ' . - * -^ 

much as may be to aid its future advancement. 

ATHENS IMPROVES AND GROWS 
BEAUTIFUL IN OLD AGE 

It is gratifying to be able to say concerning the town 
that its old age, which entitles it to some degree of venera- 
tion, appears to bring with it no indications of decrepitude. 
For all puqjoses of inter- 
nal improvement and energetic '-''="' norm.il school of thk omo lxiveksitv 
action in securing advantages 

of a public nature from without, Athenian enterprise has suffered no 
abatement. The e.xterior dress of the town is proof enough of this. 
Its improved streets, both in grades and pavements, its multi- 
plied__shade trees, its gas and electric lights, its beautiful new ceme- 
tery, and more particularly its Asylum for the Insane, are all features 
that at once strike the eye of the stranger, producing a decidedly 
FRONT viKw OK THE cot NTi favorablc imprcssiou I and last, though not least, we make mention of 

our railroads and telegraphic communications of the most important 
character; all combining not only to reflect the highest credit upon the action and enterprise which 
secured them, but are encouraging as harbingers of an era that may one day, in the future devel- 
opment of this valley, make Athens one of the most notable and important cities in Ohio 






ORPH.\NS' HOME, ATHENS, OHIO 



A :\IEMOIlY 




TOWNSliNU 



By Maiv Allen Townsend 
or Athens, Ohio 

\i) Iniinau voice had heard its echo here. 
Kxcept perhaps sonic solitary breast 
Had spent his savage arrow o'er the crest 

'I'll >lait t'ldiii hidden den the wolf or deer. 

But nlien llie melancholy dip of oars 

Had died uj)on that mournful twilight mist. 
There was no din of dance, no flute, no tryst 

To sound above the lonely, lapping shores. 

A cldiidcd moon hung on her mystic way. 

But through the gloaming gleamed one lingering slar 
'J'hat slied a glittering, golden light afar. 

And bade the human heart its sorrow stay. 



Behind the clouds was spread the azure vault. 
The gloom must lift to sweet ambrosial light. 
The pioneer had pleaded this his sight, 

And fanned a flame, a beacon to exalt. 

His ax would blaze a path across the wood, 

His plough would furrow through the grassy plain. 
And gates give way to fie'ds of waving grain 

Across the meadow where the cabin stood. 



Across the hill would bloom the sweet wild rose. 
Along the lane the virgin lily grow, 
Above, the graceful swallow to and fro 

Would pass upon the swiftest breeze that blows. 

Forgotten were the fears of yesterday. 
And quiet was the tempest in the breast 
That struck and shook and tore the barren chest 

That found the western wilds but yesterday. 

Came by the fathers' fields a boyish dream. 
Where wisdom seemed to fall like gentle dew 
And burst and glitter with the rainbow hue 

Along the Hocking's narrow, winding stream. 

They saw a morning star in crimson light. 
That hung above yon sylvan cradle there; 
While came from cliff to cliff the clarion's blare: 

A College Light was born midst whispering night. 

Time struck the shackles from the pioneer. 
Minerva sits at Learning's open door. 
And murmurs soft and sweet, For Evermore, 

Across the fathers' cold and silent bier. 

To-day the old and young drink deep of glee. 

'Twas not in vain the fathers lived and died. 

Gray hairs and beardless youths stand side by side 
To hail Ohio Universilv. 



MEN OF ATHENS 




J. B. CLAYTON 

Biographer cf "The Men of Athens" ' 



JOHN lutowx 




VVTAS born in Bern Townsliip, Athens 
County, Ohio, December 23, 1801. 
With ;i consuming thirst for knowledge his 
iip]iortiiiiiti(s for satisfying this desire were 
limited. At the age of thirteen he began the 
study of aritliuiitic, and with the aid of liis 
mother mastered the fundamental rules. He 
attended scliool several months in Marietta, 
and in his zeal, tliat would not stop at any ob- 
stacle, studied and recited eighteen hours per 
day. For twelve or fourteen years he taught 
school in the Winter and worked on a farm in 
the Summer. 

In 1810 he removed to Albany, Ohio, and 
in 18(i8 to Athens, where he and his son, 
James D. Brown, engaged in the banking 
business under the name of " Bank of Ath- 
ens." It may well be said that he was a 
student all his life. He was a man of vigorous 
body, active and of an investigating turn of 
mind, successful in his business and a good 
citizen. His death occurred October 18, 1875. 



HULL FOSTER 

■nORN at Sudberry, Rutland County, Vt., 
Januarj' 23, 1796- He came to Athens 
in the year 1805. He lived in Athens for 
nearly eighty-five years and seemed like 
a giant oak to withstand the ravages of time. 
He saw the young, the middle aged and the 
old called from his side by the hand of death, 
and most of the wonderful clianges of the 
century, from the rudest pioneer life to the 
highest civilization, passed before his vision. 
He was " Uncle Hull " to the whole conimu- 
nitv, and his summons came ilav .'?, 1 8,00. 




MAJOR 
CHARLES TO WX SEND 

W/AS born at Harrisvilk-, Harrison Coun- 
ty, Ohio, December 21, 1834.. In his 
seventeenth year he entered the Ohio Univer- 
sity and graduated in the year I86I. By his 
own labor and will power he secured his edu- 
cation and earned the money to pay this 
exjjense. At the breaking out of the Civil 
War he was engaged in teaching. Re- 
signing his position, without appointment 
or commission he recruited one hundred and 
twenty men, who were enlisted in Company C, 
13th Ohio Infantry, and mustered into service 
at Camp Chase in July, I86I. His army 
service was no holiday affair, but hard, ex- 
acting and full of toil, as he served under 
Generals Rosecrans, Pope, McClellan and 
Sherman, and was promoted to Major. In 
1866 he graduated from the Law Department 

of the University at Cincinn iti and began the practice of law at Athens. 

He held at various times the office of Prosecuting Attorney, member of the Legislature 

and Secretary of the State of Ohio, trustee of Ohio University and Commander of the G. A. R. 

for the State of Ohio. His death occurred January I'J, 1900. 




COLONEL 
NELSON H. VAN VORHES 

Vj^AS born in Washington County, Pa., 
January 23, 1822, and removed to 
Athens County when he was ten years of age. 
At the age of twenty-one he assumed the edi- 
torial control of a newspaper, and at twenty- 
six was a member of the Ohio Legislature. 
In 1844 he and his brother, A. J. Van Vor- 
hes, purchased the Athens " Fessenger " and 
" Hocking Valley Gazette." He was one of 
the first to respond to the call for troops in 
I86I, enlisting as a private soldier. He was 
promoted through all the subordinate offices 
to that of Colonel. He served sis terms as a 
member of the Ohio Legislature and two terms 
as Speaker of the House. He was member 
of Congress from 1875 to 1879- 

His death occurred December 4, 1882. 





JOHX XICIIOLSOX DEAN 

DORX at Norton, Bristol County, Mass., 
October 25, 1791. He came to Ath- 
ens in 1815 and for fifty-nine years was 
a citizen of Athens. In the Summer of 1816 
John N., William and Gulliver Dean made all 
tlie brick used to erect the central building of 
the Ohio University, and later in 1835 the 
subject of this sketch made all the brick to 
construct the east and west wings of that 
building. He was twice elected member of 
the Town Council, and he died in Ross Coun- 
ty, June 23, 187-1. 



JOSEPHUS TUCKER 

V^i\S born in Hardy County, ^'a., January 
19, 1815, and was a resident of Ath- 
ens for twenty-three years. He held the office 
of Trustee of Athens Township, and was also 
a member of the Board of Education. 
His death occurred :March 9. 1882. 





1 . Norman Root 



4. Jacob Lawrence Curri 



3. Lot L. Smi 



2. John Perkins 



5. Rev. John Henrv Pratt 



T.OT I.. SMITH 

p)ORX in Guernsey County, Ohio, Sej)- 
teiiiher 14, 1820. He came to Atliens 
in the year 1839. He received his education 
at the Augusta College, Augusta, Ky., and at 
the Ohio University, sustaining liiniself dur- 
ing his vacation days by diligent apjilication 
to his trade, that of shoemaker. 

.Ambitious for a legal education in- cntiivd 
the office of Hon. William \V.ill, a pr<iniinent 
attorney of Atliens, as a student. He was ad- 
mitted to the Ohio Bar in 1845. The esteem 
in -which he was held by his fellow citizens 
was clearly shown by the places of honor and 
trust given him. He was Prosecuting Attor- 
ney of Athens County for two terms and a 
member of the Senate of Ohio from the Ath- 
ens District for two terms. He was als > 
nominated by the Democratic Convention as 
candidate for Congress. His recognition in 
the larger field of State politics was sliown by 
his appointment as Private Secretary to Gov- 
ernor Medill. 

Among the students in his law oHice, who 
afterwards attained prominence, may be men- 
tioned General Charles H. Grosvenor and 
Judge de Steiguer. 

In 1864 he removed to Columbus, Ohio, and 
at once became a figure prominent in public 
aif'airs. He was elected Justice of the Peace 
for Franklin County and served in that office 
with ability for eighteen years. His legal de- 
cisions were rendered with a rare combination 
of justice and on a sound legal basis, from 
which appeals were seldom taken, and when 
they were he was almost always sustained by 
the higher court. He served as a Representa- 
tive from Franklin County in the Sixty-eighth 
and Sixty-ninth General Assembly. Was also 
a delegate to the Democratic National Con- 
vention in I860. 

It was said of him tliat " he was a kindly 
man, imiversally loved and respected by liis 
neighbors, his constituents and by the ])ublie 
at large." 

He died at Columbus, Ohio, .March 8, 1892- 



X OH MAX ROOT 

p)()KX in Canaan, Conn., January 22, 
179s. Ill removed to Ohio in I8I6 
and to Athens in 1820. In 1827 Mr. Root 
was elected County Auditor, and was re- 
elected five times. He was also Recorder for 
manv vears. To quote what was truthfully 
said of him, " he was a man of great modesty 
and reticence, but of sound judgment and ex- 
cellent business capacity." 

He died September 21, 1867- 

JACOB L. CURRIER 

T50R\ at Athens, Ohio, March 31, 1815. He 
was a son of Judge Ebenezer Currier, 
a prominent eiti/en of Athens for many 
years, elected member of the School Board 
and to the office of County Sheriff, which he 
held for four years ; was also the Superintend- 
ent of the Hocking Valley Canal. His death 
occurred at Columbus, Ohio, October 21, 1891. 

JOHX PERKIXS 

V^AS born in Leicester, Vt., December 27, 
1791, being the fifth son in a family 
of ten children. His father decided to 
settle at Athens on account of the prospective 
founding of the Ohio University at that place, 
and as time went on two of his sons, five 
grandsons, and two great-grandsons have 
graduated at this institution. 

He was Postmaster of Athens for nearly 
twentj^-five years. During a long and useful 
life he commanded the respect of his fellow 
citizens. He died November 24, 1880. 

REV. JOHX HEXRY PRATT 

TlORN at Athens, June 10, 1822. He 
entered the Ohio University in the year 
1838 and received the degree of A. M. in 
1 845. He graduated at Princeton Theological 
Seminary in 1853. He taught at Gallipolis, 
Ohio, three years, and was pastor of the First 
Presbyterian Church at Athens for twelve 
years, also pastor at Marion, Ohio, and in 
New Jersev. He died October 11, 1899. 




JUDGE JOHX RUDOLPH 
DE STEIGUER 

^J^AS horn in Ames Townsliip, Athens 
County, Ohio, June 19, 1827. He 
was a resident of Athens from early manhood 
and engaged actively in the practice of law. 
He was a Lieutenant on the staff of General 
William Sony Smith in the Civil War. He 
was elected three times to the office of Prose- 
cuting Attorney for Athens County, and was 
a member of the Ohio State Constitutional 
Convention. He also held for three terms the 
office of Judge of the Common Pleas Court. 
His death occurred November 6, 1896. 



DR. EBER CARPENTER DE STEIGUER 

■QORN at Athens, Ohio, March 28, 1850. He was a son of Judoe Rudolph de 
Steiguer, and jjerhaps no young Athenian ever entered upon liis chosen avocation better 
equipped, having had the benefit of the 
public schools, a classic course at the 
Ohio University, a graduate of the 
Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, a post 
graduate course at Jefferson IMedical College, 
Philadelphia, and finally a year spent in the 
study of surgical operations in the hospitals 
of London, Paris and other cities of the Con- 
tinent. He practiced his profession at Al- 
bany, Athens and Logan, Ohio, and his suc- 
cess only foreshadowed what his medical 
reputation would have been had his life been 
spared. He was slight of build, and not 
strong physically. His life was mostly 
passed in the confinement of mental pursuit. 
And so his friends were called to mourn his 
early death, and the culmination of so prom- 
ising a career. He died at Logan, Ohio, 
August 2i, 1885. 




SIMEON 
WOODROW PICKERING 

WJ AS born in St. Clairsville, Belmont 
County, Ohio. February ■!•, 1819. His 
education was derived from the common 
schools and from the Franklin Institute, Har- 
rison County. Ohio. 

He assisted his father, as clerk or i)artner, 
until the year 1851, when he came to 
Atlicns and formed a partnership with his 
brother, Samuel Pickering, and Rufus W. 
Carley, under tlie firm name of Pickering, 
Carley & Co. In 18r)6 he made a business 
alliance with \\. L. Brown, the firm name be- 
ing Pickering & Brown. In 1858 he became 
interested with tiie Big Sand Furnace Com- 
pany. Vinton Comity, Ohio. In I860 he was 
elected Auditor of Athens County and held 
the office for eleven years. He was a 
director of the Hocking Valley Railroad 
Company and was also engaged in the milling business at Zanesville, Ohio, the firm 
being Pickering, Grant & Co., of the Casel Flouring Mills. He was also connected 
with the Nelsonville Coal & Coke Co. He was a trustee of the Athens Insane Asylum, 
a member of the City Council of Athens, and a member of the School Board. He died 
.lanuary 18, 1897. 




UR. HUGH MORRISON LASH 

AyV/^AS born in Alexander Township, June 
11, 18i6. He was a graduate of the 
Ohio University, and in 1871 received his 
medical degree from the Cincinnati College 
of Medicine and Surgery. Afterwards he 
took a post-graduate course at the Jefferson 
Medical College in Philadelphia. He was a 
))ractitioner in Athens for many years, and 
took liigli rank in his profession, which he 
fully sustained after his removal to a 
larger field, the city of Indianapolis. He 
was an active member of the Marion County, 
Ind.. Mfdic.il .Society, and jjrominent as a 
lecturer and professor in the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, al-so lecturer in the 
Indiana Medical College. He was a trustee 
of tlie Athens State Hospital and a citizen 
of Athens for forty-six years. He died at 
Indianapolis. Sel)teniiier 10. 1 <)();!. 




SAMUEL PICKERING 




TDORX near St. Cl.iirsville, Belmont County, 
Ohio, June 2-1, 1811. He received a 
good common school education, and after 
engaging in the mercantile business at various 
Ijlaces, he came to Athens in 1838. He en- 
tered into pai'tnership with Rufus W. Carley 
and with the firm of Carley & Pickering dealt 
extensively in wool and general merchandise. 
The firm built two locks on the Hocking 
Valley Canal. He was a buyer of horses, 
cattle and sheep, also a packer of pork at 
Beardstown, 111. He built a section of the 
B. & O. short line, and during the Civil ^^'ar 
bought horses for the government. He was 
a member of the Town Council, held the office 
of Coimty Treasurer two terms, and was one 
of the original directors of the First National 
Bank and first president of the Athens Loan 
& Building Association. He retained his 
faculties to a wonderful degree, and having 
been a citizen of Athens for sixty-one years 
died Januarv 8, ISpC). 



JAMES H. FAI.LOOX* 

V\7^AS borii at Frcdricksburgh, Canada, in 
tlie year ISIS. He was a resident of 
Athens and vicinity for nearly thirty years, 
and died in the vcar 1886. 





CAPTAIN JOSEPH 
LIXXVITJ.E KESSIX(;EU 

\^7AS born at Fultonh.ini, .Muskingum 
Count}-, Oiiio, XovembLT ••2<), 1825, 
and for forty-seven years was a resident of 
Athens. He was appointed quartermaster 
of tlic 10th Ohio Infantry on August 21, 
ItS()l, and was actively engaged in army ser- 
\ ice until his resignation, ^larcli 11, 18(),'5. 

His strengtli of body, active mind and 
boldness of ]iurpose in carrying out his plans 
nia(]e him a natural leader of men, and when 
these qualities were used in directing jjolitical 
movements his power was an acknowledged 
factor. 

He lield the office of Sheriff' of Athens 
Count}' by election, and was Collector of 
Internal Revenue by governmental appoint- 
ment. 

He died at Athens. Februarv 17. 1889. 



JOSHUA Exos weid:\iax 

^17" AS born at L'rbana. Ohio. July 3, 1837. 
He was a contractor, and helped build 
the Insane Hospital at Athens. He entered 
the United States Volunteer Service in 1861, 
and continued in the army until the close of 
the Civil War. He was wounded, but on re- 
covery returned to his regiment, the 7th Ohio 
Volunteer Cavalry, and was with General 
Sherman in his great " march to tlie sea." He 
died at Athens. Ohio, October 30. 18.08. 




THOMAS A. BEATON 



\^7AS born in Athens. Ohio, February 13, 
1837. His parents, George A. and 
Jeanette Beaton, emigrated to Athens from 
Inverness, Scotland, in 1822. 

The death of his father, at an early age, 
made it necessary for him to leave school and 
seek employment for his own supjiort, also to 
assist in the sujaport of his mother and sister. 

Although deprived of the benefits of a 
school education, through a naturally ob- 
servant mind, by association with people of 
prominence and ab- 
sorbing information, 
he came to be recog- 
nized by those who 
knew him as a man 
of exceptional gen- 
eral information. 

At the breaking out 
of the Civil War he 
was prevented from 
enlisting as a volun- 
teer because of a 
slight lameness. He, 
however, entered the 
service as Wagon 
Master of the 13th 
O. V. I., serving in 
West Virginia, and 
was at the battle of 
Carnifax Ferry. 

When the 5th Tennessee Cavalry was or- 
ganized he was appointed quartermaster of 
that regiment by its colonel, W. B. Stokes, 
with the rank of captain. He was afterwards 
appointed by the United States Government 
Inspector of Horses with the rank of Captain, 
and stationed at St. Louis. He held this 
position until the close of the war. He was 
appointed Superintendent of flails at the 
capitol, Washington, D. C by President An- 




drew Johnson, and was also in charge of the 
mails at the White House, also appointed by 
President Johnson to that important position. 
After the war he returned to Athens and 
engaged in the grocery business with Albert 
H. Crippen. Later, he formed a partnership 
with General C. H. Grosvenor, under the firm 
name of T. A. Beaton & Company, operating 
stage lines, mail contracts and a general car- 
rj'ing and stable business. 

From early manhood he took an active in- 
terest in politics. 
The latter years of 
his life were spent in 
Columbus, Ohio, in 
tlie growth of which 
city he was actively 
interested, being 
identified with its 
Board of Trade in 
securing for Colum- 
bus new industrial 
and commercial en- 
terprises. 

He was a man of 
strong will, quick dis- 
cernment and an ex- 
ceptionalh' good 
judge of human na- 
ture. He was always 
zealously interested 
in afi'airs relating to the public good. As a 
friend he was loj'al and steadfast. 

He died in Columbus, Ohio, November 7, 
1 89a. 

The subject of this sketch was the father 
of George A. Beaton, whose love for Athens, 
her environment and his boyhood friends 
suggested the " Athens Home Coming." 



MILIURV MILLER GREENE 



Y\/'AS born in I.owiston Falls, Mc, in 18;K), 
and when a very j-oung bo_v was left 
to assist in the care and support of his 
mother and three ehildren, his father having 
perished in the burning of tlie steamer " Lex- 
ington " on Long Lsland Sound. He at- 
tended the country school, finishing his educa- 
tion in the academy of the village. 

His first employment, at the age of sixteen, 
was as clerk in a hardware store. He filled 
that position for three years, and was then 
engaged by Mr. Wal- 
ter French, of ^Lan- 
chester, X. H.. as ac- 
countant and pay- 
master. In 1853 he 
became a partner in 
the firm of French, 
Dodge & Company. 

At the death of 
Jlr. French, at tiven- 
ty-three years of age, 
he found himself 
loaded with responsi- 
bilities and cares. 
Contracts for the 
construction of the 
Marietta & Cincin- 
nati Railroad, in- 
volving millions of 
dollars, had to be 
carried through, and 
with his energy and 

good judgment he brought the firm out suc- 
cessfully. 

Mr. Greene's interest in Ohio dates back to 
1857, when he became the owner of a salt and 
coal industry near Athens. The development 
of this industry convinced him that a railroad 
to the coal fields of the Hocking Valley 
would benefit Central Ohio. He took the 
lead in organizing a road to be built from 
Columbus to Athens. He went to Columbus 
in 1 865 and was successful in raising suffi- 
cient to pay for the preliminary survey. 




Active work in raising the necessary funds 
to build the Hocking Valley Railroad from 
Columbus to Atiiens was at once begun, and 
the construction of the road was pushed to a 
rapid comi)letion under the active and untir- 
ing direction of !Mr. Greene, who was elected 
general manager of the road upon its comple- 
tion. In a few years he was elected vice- 
president and later president. Under his 
direction and able management the enter- 
[jrise was a success from its beginning. 
In 1875 the Co- 
lumbus & Toledo 
Railroad was built, 
and Mr. Greene was 
elected president of 
that road. Some 
years later the Ohio 
and West Virginia 
line was completed, 
when all three prop- 
erties were consoli- 
dated into the Co- 
lumbus, Hocking 
\'alley & Toledo 
Railroad Company, 
with Mr. Greene as 
president. 

In 18 8 5 :M r . 
(jreene retired fram 
active railroad work, 
and organized the 
Clinton National 
Bank of Columbus, being elected president 
of that institution, which position he held 
until his death in Columbus on June 26, 1887. 
During all his life Mr. Greene was an ener- 
getic and active worker in his own affairs ; 
also in the interest of the Presbyterian 
Church, of which he was a member. He had 
great executive capacity*, combined with won- 
derful knowledge of detail. He was genial, 
courteous and pleasant with all with whom he 
came in contact, and his death was universally 
mourned and regretted. 



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ELI CUSHMAX CRIPPEX 

■nORX at Athens, Ohio, December 28, 
181 i. He was the son of Amos Crip- 
pen, Associate Judge of the Court of Com- 
mon Pleas of Athens County. He attended 
the public schools, and for many years fol- 
lowed the business of blaeksmithing. No man 
of his day and generation possessed a more 
even temper, and his uniform sunny disposi- 
tion gives pleasant remembrance to those who 
knew him. His love for outdoor life, espe- 
cially fox hunting, was proverbial, and to him 
the far-off cry of the hounds was music sweet- 
er far than the artificial notes of the finest 
orchestra. He resided at Athens all his life. 
He was appointed Postmaster by President 
Lincoln in ISG."). and died November 20. ISpl. 



ALOXZO LAWREXCE 
ROACH 

^^U ^^ born in \Vashington County, Ohio, 
August 22, 1828, his father dying 
when he was two j-ears old. He entered the 
Ohio River steamboat service at an early age 
as cabin boy and passed through the various 
grades to second mate. 

He came to Athens in 1853, and for a num- 
ber of years dealt extensively in hardware, 
stoves and tinware. In 1869, with his two 
sons, Frank S. and Harry M., he established a 
large grocery business, and all his life was 
noted for his industry and thrift and the 
tlioroughness with which he accomplished 
whatever he undertook. 

His death occurred September 15, 1900. 





(ilLHKKT MfMASTER 

YA,^AS hoi-n in Aints Townslii]). Atlit-ns 
C'luiiity. Ohio. June .SO, 181<), and 
livfd nt'.ir Athens for over eighty years. H? 
was richly endowed with jjractical common 
sense, a vigorous body, ready to execute the 
orders of an active mind. He held the office 
of Justice of the Peace for six yeirs, Town- 
shi]) Trustee for nine years, and Commission- 
er of Athens County for ten years, the longest 
time ever served by one man in that office. 
His death occurred Xovember 30, 1899. 



ELIAKIM HASTINGS MOORE 



"DORN at Boylston, Mass., June !!•, I.sl'J, he eanie t 
He eajierly absorbed all the instruction he could 
and was an apt i)U|)il in the larger field of experien 
was a Republican, having acted with that 
))arty from its formation. He studied sur- 
veying under Hon. S. B. Pruden, and in 183(i 
was appointed Deputy County^ Surveyor. In 
18;i8-41 and ISii he was elected Surveyor, 
and in 1816 County Auditor, holding that 
office until 18.58. His whole life was spent in 
serving his fellow citizens. He was a director 
of the State Bank of Ohio, Athens br.anch. 
and president of the First National Bank. 
Collector for the Fifteenth District of Ohio, 
director of the Marietta & Cincinnati Rail- 
road, elected to Congress in 1870, member of 
Board of Trustees of Ohio University and the 
Ohio Insane Asylum. He was an efficient 
worker for the location of this asylum at 
Athens, and always ready to labor for the 
best interests of his chosen home — Atluiis. 

His last years were cheered by the jironii- 
nence and great usefulness of his son. Bishoji 
David H. Moore. He died at Athens, .\pril 
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JOHX VARLEY 

DORN ill Galway County, Ireland, Novem- 
ber 9, 1821, was the eldest of five 
sons. He came to America April 16, 1841. 
He was engaged in railroad work in Maine, 
Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and 
Maryland for a number of years. In 1856 he 
came to Ohio and was employed by the 
Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad as foreman 
of stone cutting, and from 1857 to 1868 he 
was connected with the same road as foreman 
of work or section boss. He was employed by 
the Hocking Valley Railroad Company in 
]87~, and continued with that company until 
the infirmities of advancing age prevented 
active labor. In disposition he was cheerful, 
and always had a pleasant word for those he 
met in daily intercourse. As a citizen he was 
quiet, law abiding and ready to sustain any 
measure of public utility. He died March 10, 
1903. 



JOSEPH HULL NORTON 

W/ AS born at Homer, Cortland County, 
New York, January 21, 1808, and 
came to Athens when quite a young man. 
For nearly sixty j'ears he was identified in an 
important way with the business affairs of 
Athens, as a merchant, dealing in a general 
line of goods, and as a prominent buyer and 
shipper of wool to the Eastern market. 

While to strangers he seemed reserved, to 
his family and friends he fully met the re- 
quirements of a kind husband, a generous 
father and a good citizen. He died at Ath- 
ens, August 25, 1888. 





CHARLES EDWARD 
MONTGOMERY JEXXIXGS 

'W/'AS Ixirii at Catawissa, Columbia Coun- 
ty, Pa., March 9, 1837, and removed 
to Ohio the same year. He lived on a farm 
until his fifteenth year. In 185'2 he entered 
the office of the Lancaster " Gazette " to learn 
the trade of printer. In 1857 he assumed 
the editorial control of the Hocking Valley 
" Republican " at Logan. During the War 
of the Rebellion he was chief clerk to the 
Provost Marshal-General of Ohio, serving 
with Colonel Edward A. Parrott of the 1st 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Colonel Joseph 
H. Potter of the Regular Army. He was for 
a time the Columbus correspondent of the Cin- 
cinnati " Gazette." In the year 1868 he pur- 
chased the Athens " Messenger," an influen- 
tial Republican paper, and continued in that 
capacity until liis death, which occurred June 
8, 1896. 



LEWIS STEEXROD 

V^7AS born in Muskingum County, Ohio, 
August 19, 1851. His early life was 
spent on a farm and his education was de- 
rived from the public schools. He went to 
Nelsonville, Ohio, about 1842, and took an 
active interest in the opening, development 
and shipment of coal by the Hocking Valley 
Canal, and while engaged in other business 
still continued active in handling coal proj)- 
erties. During his residence in Athens he 
conducted the old established " Brown 
House," and afterwards was proprietor of 
the " United States " at Columbus, Ohio, for 
six years. His failing health the last few 
years of his life prevented active business, 
and his death occurred March 20, 1900. 





1. Eber GkeK-N' Carpentek 



'2. William Loking Hhown 



3. Judge Johx Welch 
4. Archibald Green Brown o. James Wells Bayard 



JOHN WELCH 

AA/AS born on his father's farm in Harri- 
son County, Ohio, October 28, 1805, 
and cauic to Rome Township about 1828. He- 
studied law uiiiKr Professor Joseph Dana, 
and liad to go fourteen miles to recite 
one or more times a week. He was admitted 
to the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio, 
sitting in Athens County. 

His industry and natural ability soon gave 
him prominence at Athens and througliout the 
State. He was Prosecuting Attorney for 
.Vthens County, member of the St.ate Senate, 
He))resentative in Congress, Judge of the 
Common Pleas Court, and also Chief Justice 
of the Supreme Court of Oliio. In all these 
positions he sustained liimself with marked 
efficiency and honor. 

He died in Athens, August 5, 1891, nearly 
eiglity-six years of age. 



EBER GREEN CARPEXTER 

V\7AS born at Alstead, N. H., in August, 
1808. The trend of the family seems 
to have been towards medicine, his father 
and brother both being physicians, and in 
1831 he graduated as an M.D. from the Berk- 
shire Medical College. He came to Ohio in 
1833 and to Athens in 1836, where he prac- 
ticed his profession until 1879, when a serious 
accident made him a cri])))le for life, com- 
pelling him to abandon a calling in which for 
over forty years he had been distinguislied 
for his ability and professional skill. 
His dt-atli occurred Xovcniber 2, 188K 



ARCHIBALD GRJ:EX BROWN 

A^/AS born at Waterford, Washington 

County. Ohio. April Hi, 1798. He 

attcn(h<] the Ohio University, graduating 



in 1822. In 182.) he established the Athens 
" .Mirror," the first jjaper published in Athens 
County, which he continued until 1830. He 
held the office of Recorder for thirteen years, 
and was Justice of the Peace from 1826 to 
18;)l). He was admitted to the bar at Athens 
in 1831. He was elected a member of the 
Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio 
and ajjjjointed Presiding Judge of the Eighth 
Judicial Circuit. In 1811 he became a trustee 
of the Oliio University, and in 1833 was made 
a Ruling Elder of the Presbyterian Church, 
holding that ])lacc at the time of his death, 
which occurred Januarv 2, 1892. 



WILLIA3I LORING BROWX 

AA/'AS born at Athens, December 31, 1819. 
He was a son of General John Brown 
and received his education at the Ohio Uni- 
versity. He had a mind well stored as the 
result of many years' close reading of gen- 
eral literature. 

He retained the position of Deputy Re- 
corder under four different Recorders, and 
also held the position of Postmaster of Ath- 
ens. His death occurred August 20, 1896. 



JA3IES WELLS BAYARD 

DORX at Wayuesburgh, Greene County, 
Pa.. August 3, 1811. He was a high- 
ly res|)ected citizen of Athens for sixty 
years, .lud during that time was elected a 
member of the Ohio Legislature, was ap- 
|)ointed Postmaster of Athens in 1868 and 
also Commissioner of United States Census. 
He died at Athens, December 28, 1893. 




CEPHAS CARPENTER 

"DORN at Ira, Vt, December 6, 1810. 
He came to Athens with his parents 
«hen a small boy and lived in that town the 
remainder of his life. For many years he 
conducted a tannerj' at the north end of Main 
Street. He was greatly interested in fruit 
culture, having set out all of the North Hill 
in trees of various kinds. In 1837-39-40- 
44-47 he was elected a member of the Town 
Council. His death occurred in June, 1880. 



WILLIA^I HULL POTTER 

A^7A.S born at Providence, R. I., February 
9, 1818. He was engaged in business 
in various parts of the West and in Pittsburg, 
Pa. He enlisted in Company K, 1st Regi- 
ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, called the Du 
Quesne Grej's, and served during the Mexican 
War, being present at the engagements of 
Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Huamanta and City 
of Mexico. He came to Athens in 1848, and 
made it his home most of his life. He died 
at Hutchinson. Kan., in October, 1893. 





JUDCiE ERASTUS 
ALEXANDER G UTIIRIE 

■DORX January 10. 183-2. He was a 
citizen of Athens for forty-five years. 

He was a man of fine natural ability and a 
close student. He held the office of Prose- 
cuting Attorney for t^vo terms, and was Judge 
of the Common Pleas Court. His knowledge 
of the law and court decisions and his well- 
chosen language always attracted a large 
audience to hear his charges to the jury. 

His death occurred .lanuarv l.'l, IS,');). 



william stone 
sted:man 

■nORN at Rutland, -Meigs County, Ohio, 
February o, 1817. Was a citizen of 
Athens most of the time for eighty years. 
Being strong in body and of an adven- 
turous disposition he turned his gaze to the 
Pacific slope and in 1849 undertook the long 
and hazardous journey across the plains to 
California, where he remained eight years. 
Returning to Athens he worked at his 
trade in building and carpenter work, and 
for fourteen years was the proprietor of 
the " Stedman House," now called " Hotel 
Palmer." He died at Alliens, October 16, 
1899. 





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JESSE VAX LAW 

• ORX near St. Clairsville, Oliio, Septem- 
ber 6, 18,S1. His early life was spent 
at Chester Hill, Ohio, where he married 
Rachel Patterson. He removed to Athens in 
I860, kept a bookstore for about nine years, 
and edited tlie Athens " ^Messenger " for four 
^•ears. 

A friend writing of him said: " He began 
life for himself in the woods, living in a 
cabin, clearing, digging, plowing, sowing, 
reaping. But his taste for book life led him 
to sell his farm and invest it all in a book- 
store in Athens." 

He entered the college classes of the Ohio 

University, and his mental development was 

marked. Jesse Van Law seemed as far as 

possible to fill the full measure of citizen, 

neighbor, husband and friend. He was 

genial. ]50ctic. jiractical; brave to defend the 

right and yet fearless in his denunciation of admitted evil. In January, 18ii!l, he united 

with tlie Methodist Episcoi)al Church and became a member of the Ohio Annual Conference 

in the same year. He was stationed at Coolville, Belpre, :Marietta and Somerset. 

The following passage, taken from a sermon jjreached by him in Athens at the close 
of his first year, seemed prophetic: " And if in the hereafter I shall come to you, as I trust 
1 shall when my work is done, with dumb white lips, and hands peacefully folded, re- 
ceive me, and lay me beside my heart's cherished ones out yonder, and write above me 
if you can, as my highest eulogy, ' he held 
fast the profession of his faith without waver- 
ing,' and then I shall no more walk by faith, 
but shall know, for He is faithful that prom- 
ised." He died June 18, 1877. 

PROFESSOR 
JAIME S GILjNIOUR 
BLAIR 

\/l/'AS born at Marcellus, N. Y., in I8I6. 
In 1855 he was called to fill the chair 
of Vice-President of Natural Science of the 
Ohio University, and held that position for 
twelve years. As a teacher he had the faculty 
of drawing the mind of the scholar to the 
topic under discussion and gently clearing 
away the abstruse or difficult points. He be- 
came principal of the State Normal School at 
Fairmont. W. Va., at which place he died 
December 2.S, 1878. 





GENERAL 
THOMAS F. WILDS 

\^7AS born at Racine, Canada, June 1, 
1831, came to Ohio in 1839, to 
Athens in 1861, and became the editor of 
the Athens " Messenger." He was an active 
Ifepublican in politics, and with all the energy 
of his impulsive nature entered the military 
service of the United States as Lieutenant- 
Colonel of the ] 16th Ohio Infantry. For two 
years and a half he was in active service in 
the Army of West Virginia. In February, 
1 S6;), he was promoted to Colonel of tlie 
ISfith Ohio Infantry. IMarch 11, ISfio, he 
WIS breveted Brigadier-General, and was 
mustered out of the service in September. 
1 Sfiy. He graduated at the law school in Cin- 
cinnati in 186() and practiced his profession at 
Athens, having associated Iiiniself with Henry 
r. Brown undi r the firm n.une of Brown &- 
Wilds. 

He died at .-Vkron. Oliio. :SIarch ii8, ISS."!. 



COLONEL 

WILLL\iM STEPHEN 

WILSON 

YA/AS born at New Haven, Conn., April 
13, 1827, and resided in and near 
Athens for thirty-one years. He enlisted in 
the service of his country August 20, 18()1, 
and was elected Captain of Company H, 3(ith 
Ohio. He was promoted to Major, December 
30, 186J', Lieutenant-Colonel, March 8, 
1865, and received his discharge July 27, 
1 865. He was elected to the office of Mayor 
of Athens, Probate Judge, Sheriff and Treas- 
urer of the County. His death occurred 
March 5, 1898. 





CAPTAIX 
ALEXANDER COCHRAX 

W/^AS born at Bridgeton, Pa., in 1818, and 
became a resident of Athens in 1853. 
In the year 186:2 he entered the service of 
the United States and was appointed First 
Lieutenant of Company 1,11 6th Regiment 
Ohio Volunteers. He was promoted to Cap- 
tain January 31, 1863, and was wounded at 
the battle of Bunker Hills, June 13, 1863. He 
was sent on recruiting service to C»ncord, 
X. H., in the Fall of 1863, where he remained 
until February 9, 186.1. He was engaged in 
the boot and shoe business and was elected 
member of Council and a School Director. 
His death occurred April 25, 1872. 



CAPTAIN 

FREDERICK HAZEN 

STEDJSrAN 

p)ORX in Akvinder Township, Athens 
County, Ohio, June 21, 1828. He was 
a resident of Athens for forty years, and 
elected to the responsible office of Sheriff of 
the county. He was not unmindful of the 
call of his country in the War of the Rebel- 
lion, and as Captain of Company A, 129th O. 
V. I. marched to danger and to duty. 

He died at Columbus, Ohio, September 6, 
1871. 





GPLORGE T. GOULD 

DOHN .it Ktiimhnnk Port, -Me., Xo- 
vciuber •ii, 18:^5, and was educated in 
llif public schools of Lewiston. He came to 
Ohio in the year 1852 and was a contractor 
in the building of the Marietta and Cincinnati 
Railroad, and the Hockinjr \',ill< y Railroad. 
In iiartnerslii)) with M. M. Green he 
carried on a large business at Salina, 
Ohio, in making salt, coal mining, pork 
packing and dealing in grain, wool and 
general merchandise. He had a very active 
mind, full of plans and zealous in pursuit of 
his theories. Attracted by the glitter and 
prospective profit of gold and silver mining, 
he spent some time in South America and 
California. His deatli occurred at Athens, 
June 18. 1895. 



ABRA^NI LASH 

A\7^AS born August 5, 1817. Was educated 
in the common schools and followed 
the occupation of farming. He was a model 
citizen — temperate, industrious and successful 
— and a member of the Baptist Church for 
sixty years. 

His death occurred October 16, 1903. 





1. Henky T. Hoyt ■i. Alexandkh EwiNd 

3. William Wvu\nd Kihtz 
4. Parker Carpenter ,5. Dr. William Parker Johnson 



WILLIAM WYLAXD KURTZ 

AA/^AS horn near New \'icnii.i. Oliio, Marcli 
16", 1823. He ncdvfd his education 
at Allegheny City. I'a.. and in 18.51 came to 
Athens County and settled near Albany, i'.inii- 
ing and working at the carpenter trade. He 
was Postmaster at Albany for three ye:irs. 
Trustee of Lee Township for three j'ears and 
Clerk of I.ee Township for six years. He 
came to Athens in 18fi5 and engaged in bu.si- 
ness, selling drugs, books and stationery un- 
der the firm name of W. W. Kurtz iS: Co.. 
and afterwards Kurtz ^: Xorris. In ISd'l 
he was commissioned Captain of Conii)any 
H, 141st Regiment of Ohio National Guards. 
He served as a member of the Athens Council 
for three years. In 1871 he was appointed 
Postmaster of Athens, and held this office for 
sixteen years. The many places of trust 
tendered him by the ijeojile speak louder than 
any complimentary terms of his sterling 
qualities as a citizen and as a man. 

He was the father of Hon, C, L, Kurtz, so 
well known to the residents of Athens County. 
He died January 21, 188.5. 

HENRY T, HOYT 

VA7AS born at Stamford, Conn,, August S, 
1822, and came to Athens in the 
year 1850. He was engaged in the livery 
and transportation business for many years. 
He held contracts with the government for 
carrying mail and passengers from Lancaster 
to Athens and Pomeroy, also from Athens 
to Chillicothe, He was rather reserved in 
manner, but his attachments for his friends 
were strong, and they could always depend 
upon his hearty co-operation when called 
upon. His untimely death, which occurred 
June 22, 1864, cut short the development of 
all his extensive business plans, as he was 
only forty-two years of age, 

ALEXANDER SAVING 

AA/AS born in Lancaster County, Pa,, 
August 23, 1 82 J, He received a good 
common school education and worked for some 
time at the manufacturing of woolen goods, 
afterwards engaging in the livery business 
at AVarrenton, Ohio, In 1858 he was elected 
Recorder of Jefferson County, and re-elected 
in 1861, He came to Athens in April, 1868, 



.•md o])erated the Herrold N\'oolen Mills, He 
bec.ime Deputy County Recorder December, 
1 872, and remained there for many years, be- 
ing also Townshi]) Clerk, He died at Athens, 
.\pril 23, 18,99, 

I'ARKEl? CxVRFEXTER 

AA/AS liorn in Rome Townsliip, .Vtheiis 
County, Ohio, November 4, 1831, 
The occupation of farming and the manu- 
facture of leather occupied his early life. In 
1869 he was elected Assessor, From 1872 
to 1874 he served as Deputj' Sheriff under 
Captain X, Warren, and from 1874 to 1878 
l)r held the office of Sheriff of Athens County. 
In 1882 held the office of Trustee of Athens 
Township, He died at Athens, ()cto!)er 1, 
1887. 

I)H. WILLLAM PARKER 
JOHNSON 

p)ORX in Rome Township, Athens County, 
Ohio, September 21, 1824, He en- 
tered the Ohio University in 1837 and 
graduated in 1843, He studied medicine with 
Dr, William Blackstone and graduated from 
the University of Louisville, Ky,, in 1847. 
After three years' law practice in X'elsonville 
he made Athens his home, and in 1861 entered 
the service of his country as surgeon of the 
ISth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, He was de- 
scended from Revolutionary stock, and the 
patroitism of 1776 still moved him to action. 
In all the trying scenes through which he 
passed, whether with his regiment, as Brigade 
Surgeon, or in charge of the field hospital, 
his patience, kindness and skill endeared him 
to the hearts of all the soldiers. He was 
elected to the Legislature of Ohio from 
Athens County and granted leave of absence 
to serve his term. His worth as a member of 
the Legislature was so endorsed that he was 
re-elected twice, serving six years in all. He 
introduced and jirocured the passage of the 
bill under which the State Insane Asylum 
was located at Athens. From 1869 to 1881 
he was connected with the X'ational Surgical 
Institute at Indianapolis and Philadel])hia. 
He was a trustee of the Ohio Lniversity for 
many years. The regard in which he M'as 
held by the peojile of Athens County was 
deep and genuine. His death occurred Octo- 
ber 20, 188,0. 




LIEUTENANT 
JOHN XICHOLSON DEAN 

"IXfAS born at Athens, February 22, 1832. 
He attended the public school and 
afterward engaged in farming. When the 
call for soldiers was made on the breaking 
out of the Civil ^\'ar. John X. Dean was one 
of the first in Atliens County to volunteer in 
the service of his country. In 1861 he 
enlisted in the three months' service under 
Captain J. !M. Dana, Company C, 3d Oliio 
Volunteer Infantry, and was sent to West 
Virginia. Afterward he enlisted in Company 
D, -ith West Virginia Infantry, and was 
ordered South to Vicksburg, under General 
Grant, taking part in the siege and capture 
of that city. He helped dig the famous Butler 
Canal opposite Vicksburg, and was at that 
time, 1863, promoted to Second Lieutenant. 
He was in the engagements at Grand Gulf, 
Jackson and Vicksburg. Having been or- 
dered to Lookout Mountain, he went by boat to Memjjhis and marched from there with his 
command to Chattanooga. He was in the battle of Mission Ridge and re-enlisted near 
Huntsville in 1864. Was also at Knoxville. On his return from a veterans' furlough he 
was ordered to Harpers Ferry and took pai-t in the Hunter raid. He was dischaj-ged from 
the army in lS(i.5. Upon his return he lived a short time in Ross County, also in 
Columbus, Ohio, and died at Atliens. Novem- 
ber 26, 1 892. 



GEORGE PUTNA31 

AA/'AS born at Marietta, Ohio. June 1, 1817- 
Descended in regular line from the 
New England family of Pntnams so promi- 
nent in the early settlement of the State of 
Ohio. He resided for man}- years on a farm, 
and took great interest in raising fine sheep. 
His voice and influence were always exerted 
for the best good of the communitv'. He re- 
moved to Athens, where he died January 12, 
1876. 





MATHEW PATRICK 

A Y/AS bnrii in .Madison Connty, New York, 
Jannary iS, 1811. He removed to 
Ohio in 1832 and to Athens village in 1837. 
He was a citizen of Athens for fifty-four 
years. A large part of this time he was en- 
gaged in mercantile business. His death oc- 
curred December li, 1891. 



LIEUTENANT 

ALEXANDER WATTS 

SHAW ]MINEAR 

'\\/'xVS born in Harrison County, West Vir- 
ginia, December 6, 1835. He came 
to Athens County when he was five years old. 
In his twentieth year he went to California 
and engaged in mining and merchandising. 
In 1859 he returned and engaged in business 
at Coolville and Guysville. He helped or- 
ganize a company and entered the Union 
Army as First Lieutenant, Company C, 18tli 
Regiment O. V. I. At the battle of Stone 
River he was sliot tlirough the body in 
an infantry charge. In ilarch, 1863, he re- 
turned home. In 1863 and 1865 he was 
elected treasurer of Athens County. In 1868 
he became a member of the drug firm of A. 
W. S. Minear & Co. In 1871 elected County 
Auditor, which he held for nine consecutive 
years. In the year 1881 he became a member 
of the firm of Kurtz & Minear. 

His death occurred at Athens, May 5, 1886. 





LEOPOLD FRIDAY 

V|^ AS born at Bainsdorf, Germany, July 
13th, ISig. He served three years, 
learning the mercantile business at Bayneuete, 
and came to America in 1864. He was en- 
gaged in business in Cincinnati, Nashville, 
Memphis and St. Louis, and had three years 
experience of frontier life in Dakota. He 
returned to Ohio in 1869 and entered the 
employ of D. Zenner & Co., and in 1875 be- 
came a member of the firm. In the year 1901 
he returned to the scenes of his early child- 
hood for a short visit, and while there he died 
August 13 of the same vear. 



WILLIAM REED GOLDEX 

Y^AS born at Athens, Ohio. April 11, 1827. 
He was a practicing attorney for 
many years, and during that time held the 
position of Prosecuting Attorney for the 
County, State Senator and Chairman of the 
Military Committee. 

He died at Athens. Fetruarv 17. 1880. 





JACOB S^VETT 

'1^7'AS born in N\-\vl)ur_v])()rt, Mass., in the 
veil- lT()."i. and was a citizen of Ath- 
ens for seventy-three years. He died at 
Athens, INIarch 30, 1887. 



HIRAM KING BLACKSTOXE 

A^T'AS born at Xelsonville, Ohio, March 15, 
1820. and resided in and near Athens 
the greater part of his life, engaged for 
many years in the clothing business. He was 
a member of the Town Council in 1856, 1857. 
1861, 1865, 1866, 1867 and 1868. He was 
First Lieutenant of the 7th Independent Bat- 
tery, O. V. A. 

His death occurred August '3. 1876. 





JOHN FRIDAY 

\^7AS born at Bairnsdorf, Germany, June 
11, 18.'31. When fourteen years of 
age he emigrated to America and engaged in 
the mercantile business at Cincinnati, Rush- 
ville, Ind., and Rochester, Ind., also at Salem, 
Wellsville and Steubenville, Ohio. In 1867 
he went to Athens and became a partner in 
the firm of D. Zenner & Co., and was actively 
engaged in business until his death, which oc- 
curred October 23, 1886. 



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V RAXSALL HADLEY STE^^ ART 

AS born at Athens, Ohio, May 15, 18.32. He was the son of Ezra Stewart, wh( 
many years was a large dealer in general merchandise, also engaged in the buying 



shipping of stock to the Eastern markets. 

As an evidence of his business qualities, 
he was sent by his father, at the early 
age of twelve years, over the mountains 
with a drove of cattle, a position hard to fill 
even by men of mature years. His education 
was obtained in the public schools and at the 
Ohio University, completed by a business 
course in Cincinnati. 

While a good business man he had ability 
and real endowment as an accountant and 
penman that made his services in demand. He 
was employed by James Fuller, salt manu- 
facturer; Ezra Stewart, a general store; L. H. 
Sargent & Co., Cincinnati, and was manager 
of the Mason City Salt Works. In later years 
he opened a real estate, notary public and 
accounting office in Athens, and was thus en- 
gaged at the time of his death, which occurred 
October 20, 1900. 





JOSEPH DORR 

V^7A.S born in Atlii-iis County, June 1, 
I81(), and t'ollowcd the occupation of 
t'arnung during Ills litV. He removed to 
Athens, but continued to give his large landed 
interests his close attention. His industry 
and good judgment brought independence and 
comfort to his declining years. 

He died at Athens, .lune IK 188t. 



CAPTAIN 
XEHEMIAH WARREX 

DORN in Clover, Columbia County, New 
York, April 13, 1823. He was a resi- 
dent of Athens and Athens County fifty-four 
years, a man of good judgment and as a 
trader and farmer successful. 

On September 2, 1862, he entered the army 
as first lieutenant, was promoted to cap- 
tain May 25, 1863, and resigned May 15, 
186l. He held the oflice of Slieriff one year 
and a half by appointment and one term bj' 
election. He died at Canaanvilli-. ,ln]v J.'i, 
1881. 





1. Joseph Herrold 2- Job Randal 

3. Captain Isaac Taylor and Wife, Lvdia Taylor 
4. David Moore Clayton 5. Henry Brown 



JOSEl'II IIKKKOLI) 



ISAAC TAYLOR 



V\/^AS horn in Ames Townsliip (then 
Wasliiiifrtoii County), I'ebruary 23, 
I8O9. His father's death required him to bo 
self-supporting at the early age of thirteen, 
at wliicli time he worked as a farm hand at 
$8.00 j)er montli. He worked on the Oiiio 
Canal, and in 183i built a flat-boat and ran it 
to Cairo, III., on the Ohio River, for Captain 
Bingham. In I83fi he began work as a bridge 
builder and eontinued at this until 1849. He 
purchased and rebuilt the mill known as 
" Herrold's Mill." He went to California in 
1850. In 18.51 he built the woolen mills at 
Athens, and in 1858, purchasing a large tract 
of coal land at the mouth of Monday Creek, 
he engaged extensively in shipping coal. In 
I860 he purchased the Ballard Salt Works 
and manufactured salt until 1 880. Later he 
went to California tlie second time. He was 
industrious, active, had a mind to plan and 
a will to execute. It was such men as Joseph 
Herrold who made their lives and labors a 
great benefit to the community in which they 
lived. He died Xovemb.r 1 K 1889. 



AA/AS born in New England, July 10, 
1 789. He e.ime to Athens when quite 
a young man and attended the Ohio Univer- 
sity. He married Miss Lj-dia Perkins, a 
daugliter of Dr. Eliphas Perkins. A family 
of eight children was born to them. Two of 
the sons were preachers. For manj' years he 
was the proprietor of the " Eagle " Hotel, at 
the south end of .Main street, Athens. His 
pleasing presence and winning smile as he 
annoimced "Dinner! " to tin- hungry guests 
is a memory not many wlio read tiiis can 
recall. He continued in the hotel business 
until fire swept from siglit the old " Taylor 
Hotel. " He died at Kingston. Ohio, Novem- 
ber ](), 18fi.3. 



DAVIU .AlOORE CLAYTON 

AA/^AS born in Clayton T()wn^hi]), Perry 
County, Ohio, in the year 181 6. He 
came to Athens in 1835 and was engaged in 
mercantile business the greater part of his 
life. He was a member of the Town Coun- 
cil and Postmaster of the city most of the time 
during the Civil War, and agent of the Adams 
and Harnden Express Companies. He died 
at Columbus, Ohio, March 8, 1868. 



CAPTAIX JOB RANDALL 



V\/'AS born at Providence, R. I., October 1, 
1791. He held the position of Rev- 
enue Officer at that place and was engaged 
for a number of years in the Merchant Ma- 
rine Service, receiving his title of Captain 
by promotion in that line. He came to Athens 
County in 1837. He lived near Athens about 
forty years, and died June 15, 1877. 



HENRY BROWN 

AA7AS born at Trenton. X. J., in the month 
of .lanuary. 181'2. He was a resident 
of Atiiens (or twelve years. He died in June, 
1885. 




AAROX DELL 

'W/ AS born at Gnadenhutten, Tuscarawas 
Comity. Ohio. May 9. 1808. He re- 
sided at Cadiz, Ohio, for some time, but lived 
at Atliens tlie long period of sixty-six years. 
He was a cabinet maker by trade. There 
were but three places to look for Aaron Dell 
for over a half centurj- — his shop, the Metho- 
dist Church and his home. His death oc- 
curred May 3, 1902, lacking only six days of 
being ninety-four years old. 



ALFRED :MC)RR1S0X 

TDORX in Jefferson County, Ohio, at 
Centerville, August 21, 1820. When 
about fifteen years old he removed to a farm 
near Atliens and was well known throughout 
the county, having been a Trustee of Athens 
Township for tM-enty years. He died INIarch 
15, 1891. 





JACOT5 GKOXES 

VV^AS born in Prussia, June 7. 1832, and 
was a citizen of Athens for twenty- 
two years. He was a merchant, dealing in 
stoves and tinware. He was elected to the 
City Council for two terms and died October 
-22, 1877. 



JA.MES RxVXSOM CABLE 

V^/^AS born at Amesville, in December, 
1814, and lived at or near Athens all 
his life. In his younger years he taught 
school and afterwards became a farmer in the 
broadest and best sense of the word, not a 
plodder, but realizing in some degree the won- 
derful possibilities of that avocation. He was 
a buyer and shipper of cattle and hogs. 
His estimate of weight and values was un- 
usually accurate, so that his services as a land 
appraiser were often in demand. He died at 
Athens. Xovember 17. 187!(- 





OLIVER CHILDS 

AA/AS born at Woodstock, Conn., May 10, 
1798. 'ind came to Athens about 1820. 
He was an industrious man, a quiet law 
abiding citizen, and for over half a century 
retained the respect of his neighbors and 
friends. He died at Athens, February 3, 
1875. 



GENERAL JOHN BROWX 

"l\/A.S born at Rowe, INIass., December 1, 
1785. He came to Athens in 1817, 
and for a great many years was proprietor of 
tlie " Inn " called the " Brown House," so 
well remembered by tlie old Athenians. Was 
County Auditor from 182^2 to 1827. Was 
Treasurer of the Ohio University from 1821 
to his death, which occurred at Athens, Marcli 
29, 1876. 





COL. HOIJERT WILLMETH 
JONES 

r)ORN in Uiliiioiit County, Ohio, June 
17, IS^M). At the early age of four- 
teen years he began to study the printer's art, 
and served as an apprentice for seven years. 
For a number of years he was editor of papers 
at Uniontown, Pa., Brownville and Waynes- 
burg. He took an active part for many 
years in all business and political questions, 
often occupying responsible positions in the 
counsels of his party, and at one time holding 
a military commission as aid to Governor Rol- 
lock, of Pennsylvania. In the year 1873 
he assumed control of the Athens " Journal," 
and to quote the language of one of the most 
])rominent journals of the State, " he brought 
tlie Athens ' Journal ' from a state of wan- 
ing independence to one of decided principles 
and of great influence." The earnest words 
of commendation and sorrow which filled the 
press of the State upon the announcement of 
his death attested the high place he held in 
their regard. He di.-d January '2.0. 1881. 



FRANKLIN EVERMONT 
FOSTER 

AX/' AS born at Athens, Ohio. April i, 1823, 
and made that place liis residence all 
his life. For many years he engaged in the 
mercantile business and was well and favora- 
bly known to all the older residents. He re- 
ceived the appointment of County Recorder 
and was a member of the School Board. His 
death occurred October 11, 18,01. 





JOHN HENRY WALKER 

TDORN in Athens, February 6, 1836. He 
served regular time and worked for a 
number of years at the carpenter trade. 
In 1862 he enlisted in Company I, 7th O. V. 
Cavafry, under Captain A. Norton, going out 
as Corporal, and later promoted to Orderly 
Sergeant. He was in the battles of Button 
Hill, West Farms, Monticello, Mount Ster- 
ling, Raytown and others. He was dis- 
charged July 8, 1865, and returned to Athens. 
He was an Odd Fellow, ^Master and Royal 
Arch Mason, and was a charter member of 
Columbus Golden Post. He died January 14, 
1 890. 



JOHN FOSTER 

YAi^AS born at Atlans, Ohio, November 9. 
1822, and resided here until 1851, 
when he removed to Stillwater, Minn. He 
returned to Athens and lived here until 1864, 
when he again moved to Minnesota, where he 
died November 8, 1898. 





TTOTT SPKXC EK STTMSOX. 
M.l). 

T) )1{N ill .Kriclio. C'liitttii(ltn County. \'a., 
.March 18, 1823, he came to Ohio with 
his ])arents wlien nine years of age. His 
father being a ])hysician lie naturally forme 1 
a taste for that profession and wlun only 
seventeen years of age began tlir study of 
medicine. 

He |)raetisid at Xelsonville and Guysville, 
and in 18M* eanie to Athens, where for many 
years he liad the leading business as a botanic 
physician in tiic county. He served seven 
years as a member of the Council. His death 
occurred at Athens, February 25, ISg-l. 



HEXRY JOSEPH TOPKY. 

YY/'.\S born at Dayton. Ohio. May 2.>. 1837, 
and eaine to Athens in the year 1858. 
I'or many years he conducted a large hard- 
\v;ire establishment undrr the firm name of 
Childs cV Tojiky. Mr. Cliilds being his 
father-in-law. The lattir jiart of his life he 
resided at .Vshtabula. Ohio, when- he died 
February '>. 1,001. 





1. AuKA.M \ AN \cii(HEs '2. Archibald B. Walkkh 

3. William Golden 
4. William Herrold 5. David Allen 



WILLIAM GOLDEN 

\A/^AS born in Mifflin County, Pa., in the 
year 1799, and came to Athens in 
1825. The respect and esteem in which he 
was held by liis fellow citizens was shown by 
the positions of trust given him by popular 
vote — Sheriff, County Treasurer, Mayor and 
Postmaster. 

He died at Athens, November i, 1887. 



« h( i-c lie resided the remainder of his life. 
He w.is one of tiie first directors of the ]\Ia- 
rietta & Cincinnati Railroad Company. He 
w;is noted for his courtesy and gentlemanly 
1 eiring and for the correctness and clearness 
of all his business records. During a long 
and useful life his voice and influence were 
cast for the upbuilding of the bcsf interests of 
the community. 

His death occurred January 1(3. 1886. 



ABRAHAM VAN VORHES 

A^7AS a resident of Washington County, 
Pa., and removed to Athens in the 
year 1832. He first settled on the present 
site of Hibbardsville, which town he founded. 
After living there some four years he moved 
to Athens, and became proprietor and editor 
of the " Western Spectator." Mr. \"an 
Vorhes represented Athens County in the 
Legislature of Ohio, and was prominent as a 
citizen and as molder of public opinion. 

He was the fatlier of Hon. Nelson H. \'an 
Vorhes, and his editorial mantle fell upon a 
worthy son. 



ARCHIBALD B. WALKER 

V^/^AS born in the State of Vermont, Octo- 
ber 15, 1800. He removed to Athens 
Couiitv in ISIO and to .\thens viliaff'.- in 1825, 



DAVID ALLEN 

V^/AS born near Cadiz. Ohio, June 13, 
ISUi. .ind was a resident of Athens 
Townshij) from 181'7. He was descended 
from Scotch parents and had the love of 
things honestly done, which is characteristic 
of that people. Perhaps the most careful and 
studious readers of the Bible belong to the 
Scotch people, and Mr. Allen all his life gave 
attention to the reading of the Word. At the 
age of sixteen he had for his teacher John 
\\'elch, who afterwards became distinguished 
as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 
Ohio. His general reading was so well kejit 
up and his mind so well in touch with current 
events, that his conversation was more than 
usually interesting. He retained his strength 
well to the last, and would walk to Atliens 
from his lionu- in preference to riding. He 
died .laimarv I I. 1<)II3. 




LEONARD BROWX 

V^T^AS horn in Waterloo Township, Athens 
County, August 1!), 1817. He re- 
moved to Albany, Ohio, and was a member of 
the Town Council for several years. On re- 
moving to Athens he became proprietor of the 
old hotel known as the " Brown House," so 
long ke]3t b}' General John Brown. He was 
.1 man of great personal courage in adhering 
to his own convictions, and held with un- 
swerving tenacity to his views of right and 
wrong. He filled with popular approbation 
the office of Sheriff for one term and County 
Treasurer for two terms. He died at Wood- 
linrv. New Jersey, January 8, 189-- 



RUFUS WASHBURN 
CARLEY 

TDORN at Herkimer County, New York, 
in March, 180.). He was a resident 
of Athens for about thirty years. In 
1838 he became engaged in business with 
Samuel Pickering, and for many years, under 
the firm name of Carley & Pickering, the firm 
dealt largely in dry goods, groceries, wool 
and stock of various kinds. He removed from 
Athens to Parkersburg, W. Va., and engaged 
in the oil business, and afterwards to Louis- 
ville, Ky., where he was connected with the 
oil business of his son, Francis D. Carley. 
He was a man of inflexible will, conservative 
in his plans and industrious. He died at 
Louisville. Ky., March 1, 1879. 





LIEUTENANT 
HENRY THOMAS HROWN 

AVTAS born at Alliens, Ohio, November 11, 
182 1, and made it his home for sixty- 
eight years. For many years he was asso- 
ciated as attorney with his father, A. G. 
Hrown. mulcr tlic firm name of A. G. & H. T. 
15n)wn. He was commissioned First I-ieu- 
tenant in the 14.1st Regiment, National Guard. 
After his father's death he was appointed 
Trustee of the Ohio University. His death 
occurred July 28, 1892. 



ABNER COO LEV 

A^7AS born at Forestville, Chautauqua 
County, New York. He was a resi- 
dent of Athens about thirty-five years, was a 
public-spirited citizen and was employed in 
building and refitting buildings. He was a 
member of the Athens School Board and 
served as its Treasurer. The latter part of 
his life he lived at West I.ibert}-, Iowa, where 
his death occurred October 12. 1900. 





]. Daniel Bertixe Stewart 

3. John Ring 

5. RuFus Putnam Crippen 



'2. Calvauy Morris 
i. William Nelson 
(i. Daniel Brown 



DAMKL HKHTlXEii 
STEWART 

■pORX September 26, 181'i, in Athens 
County. His opijortunity for acquir- 
ing an education was liuiited, but his habits 
of economy, industry and perseverance sup- 
plied him with the elements of a successful 
business life. 

At the age of sixteen he entered his fath- 
er's flouring mil], at eighteen took charge 
of it and at twent_v-one purchased the 
mill. For many years he was active in build- 
ing saw mills, grist mills, woolen mills and 
in merchandising. It was largely through 
his energy and plans that the Baltimore & 
Ohio short line railroad was built. He was 
a stockholder and director in that road. On 
his own land he laid out the village of Stewart, 
erecting the dwellings and buildings. His 
name will be remembered by his \arious enter- 
prises made in behalf of the public good. 

He was a Lincoln elector in I860, a Justice 
of the Peace and a County Commissioner. He 
was prominent in the founding of the County 
Infirmary, and was an active business man. 
He died at Athens July 23, 1902. 

JOHX IIIXG 

YA/AS born in Somersetshire, England, 
.lune 30, I8I4. When about fifteen 
years old he was apprenticed to learn the 
butcher's trade, serving four years as an ap- 
prentice and after that some ten years with 
his employer. In 1856 he came to America 
and settled in Athens. In 18")8 he purchased 
the business formerly conducted by Mr. 
Abraham Newton, and for many years con- 
tinued it. 

His pleasant manners and cheerful counte- 
nance made him many friends, and his hearty 
English accent and greeting made him iiopu- 
lar with old and young. His death occurred 
:\[ay 26, 1 SOT- 
WILLIAM XELSOX 

p)ORX in County Tyrone, Ireland, May 1, 

1807, was a resident of Athens about 

fifty years. He was a merchant, handling dry 



goods, notions and elothing. In pursuing the 
even tenor of his way and enjoj'ing the so- 
ciety of his children and friends, he realized 
his greatest happiness. He died November 3, 

1888. 

RUIITS PUTXA31 ClUPPEX 

A^/^A.S born in Home Townslii]), Athens 
County, Oliio, November 18, 1817. 
He was left an orphan when only eleven 
years of age, came to Athens and made his 
home with his uncle, Amos Crippen, and at 
times with his father's sister, Mrs. A. G. 
Brown. He learned the trade of a tailor, and 
worked at that business in Athens and 
Marietta. 

He afterwards engaged in the grocery and 
restaurant business and continued in that 
business until his death. He not only had a 
fine taste for music, but real ability as a per- 
former. He had a uniform and even disposi- 
tion, and was never hippier than when the 
pleasantries of the social circle were enlivened 
by the sweet harmonies of musical instru- 
ments. He died March 17, 1871. 

CALVARY ^lORRIS 

V^/AS born near Charleston, W. Va., in 
17y8. and for a number of years he 
worked on a farm struggling with the 
hardships of pioneer life. In the year 1819 
he located in Athens, having married the eld- 
est daughter of Dr. Leonard Jewett. At the 
earnest solicitation of Rev. Jacob Lindley, 
President of the Ohio University, he became 
the teacher of a school. During this time he 
worked his cornfield by moonlight. For many 
years he held the responsible position of 
Sluriff of the County, member of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate of Ohio. 
While a member of the Legislature he was 
largely instrumental in the passage of the bill 
for building the Hocking Valley Canal. In 
1836 he was elected to Congress and re- 
elected in 1838-1840, and in 18o5 w.as elected 
Probate Judge. He was a brother of Bishop 
Morris, of the Methodist Church, and like 
him filled full his measure of usefulness and 
honor. He died at Athens, October 13, 1871. 







willIx\.:m walker 

'11 fAS born in Yorkshire, England, Decem- 
ber 30, 1808. Wlien eleven years old 
he came with his parents to the United States 
and settled in Athens. He learned from his 
father the trade of horseshoer. When only 
nineteen years of age and with but six dollars 
in his pocket he walked to Cincinnati and 
completed his knowledge of the making of 
edged tools, returning to Athens when he 
was twenty-one. He pursued the business of 
blacksmithing and farming until he met with 
the loss of his right arm in a threshing ma- 
cliinc. 

His deatli occurred December 3, 1877. 



REV. SOLOMAX 
HOWARD, D.D., LL.D. 

^^7 AS born at Cincinnati, Ohio, November 
11, 1811. He graduated at Augusta 
College, Ky., in 1833. For some time he was 
professor at St. Charles College, Mo. In 
1845 he was principal of 1:he Preparatory De- 
partment of the Ohio Wesleyan University at 
Delaware, Ohio. He was President of the 
Ohio University from 185^2 to 1872. Wliile 
somewhat eccentric in his line of thought and 
peculiar in habit and manner, he retained the 
esteem and good will of his students. He was 
a member of the Ohio Conference of the 
M. E. Church from 1835. 

He died at San Jose, Cal., .Tune fl, 1873. 








georgp: hj:nry 

STEWART 

Y\/^AS born ,it Athens, Ohio, October 2, 
ISviT, ami made Athens his home as 
loiii;- as ho IImcI. He held the position of 
County HecoriiiT from 1855 to 1861. In 
18(31 he was appointed Postmaster of Athens 
by Abraham Lincoln, and served in that posi- 
tion until his death, which occurred October 
1, 18(JI. 



COLONEL 

GEORGE WASIIIXGTOX 

BAKER 



B^ 



>ORN near Athens, Ohio, May '2, 1829. 
His father, Nicholas Baker, was one of 
the pioneers of Athens County. George W. 
Baker lame to Athens when twenty years of age and entered the employ of .John Perkins, 
drugijist, remaining in that position about two years, when he went to California and engaged 
in mining. Upon his return to Athens he entered the drug business, the firm being known 
as Perkins & Baker, and afterwards with F. J. Ballard, under the firm name of Baker & Ballard. 

In July, 1861, he entered the Union Army as Captain of C<mipany C, 39th O. V. I , and 
served until November, 18(32, when he was appointed Ccmimissary of Subsistence by President Lin- 
coln and served under General Sherman until the fall of Vicksburg, in July, 1 863, when his health 
failing, he was sent home on leave of absence. In November, 1863, he was ordered on duty 
;it La Grange, Tcnn.. as Commissary of Gen- 
eral A. J. Smith's command. Owing to bad 
health he was ordered to Milwaukee, St. 
Paul and Fort Snelling. In November, 
ISliK lu- was ordered to Nashville, Tenn., 
and to New Orleans, La., where he was com- 
missioned Chief Commissary with the rank of 
Lieutenant-Colonel. He remained in active 
service until he was mustered out, July Ki, 
1866. He was a fine type of the .Vmorican 
citizen, a brave soldier, true and loyal as a 
friend. 

He was a |)rominent citizen and held the 
confidence of the people to such an extent that 
he was elected Mayor, County Treasurer. 
Clerk of the Court and Postmaster. His 
death occurred July 12, 1896. 

Colonel Baker wis a member of the Ohio 
C"ommandery, Loyal Legion. 




JUDGE ISAAC BARKER 



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DORN at Long Plains, Mass., February 17, 
1 779, and was a lineal descendant of 
Robert Barker, who came to Plymouth Colony 
in 1630. In 1789 he came with his father's 
family to Ohio and settled near Belpre, where 
he spent nine years of his life amid the most 
exciting events of that period, as during that 
time the Indian War of 1790 to 179i occurred 
when families, shut up in blockhouses, were 
beset 1 y the pangs of hunger and suffered 
the loss of dear ones at the hands of the 
cruel savages. For friends and neighbors 
they had such ])rominent families as the Put- 
nams, Devols, Smiths, Danas, Stones, Cooks 
and many others. In 1798 the family re- 
moved to Athens, then only a small village, 
and tor some three years lie was iM-oprietor of a hotel which stood where the old Brown 
House " was located. He was a man of great natural ability, and his education was acciuired 
by private study. As a citizen and public man he held high place in the community. He 
served ten years as Associate Judge of the Common Pleas Court, He also held the office of 
Sheriff of the County, Treasurer of the County and Collector of College Rents for many years. 
He died March ,S0, 1873, at the remarkable age of ninety-four. 




JOHX BALLARD 

V\/'AS born at Cliarle.iiont, .Mass., October 
I, 1790. Mas a citizen of Athens 
about thirty-nine years. He was what might 
be called a " gentleman of the old school " 
— polite, easilj' approached, yet bearing 
himself with great dignity, his manner 
forbidding unnecessary familiarity. He was 
for many years prominent as a business man, 
as the head of the large firm of J. Ballard 
& Sons, He was the president of the Athens 
branch of the State Bank of Ohio, He died 
at the place of his birth August '23, 1880, 





SVLVKSTER VOTXC; 

T3()I{N' ill Canaan Townshi]), Alliens County, 
Oliio, September '^0, ]82(). He learned 
tin- trade of carpenter and joiner iif his 
t'atiier. 

Se|)tenil)er 7, l>S()'i, lie enlisted in Company 
T, Ttli Oliio Cavalry, and was promoted to 
Corporal. He participated in the battles in 
(Iriural W. T. Sherman's campaign from 
Buzzards Roost to the close of the siege of 
Atlanta. He was never absent from his com- 
|)any on account of wounds or sickness and 
was discharged at Nashville, Tenn., July 4, 
1 Sfio. He returned to Athens and resumed 
his trade, and after being a resident of Ath- 
ens for forty years died A)iril ;?. 1887. 



UAVIU ZEXXER 

Y\/AS born in Lichtenfelz, Germany, in 
August, 1816, and was a resident of 
Athens for twenty-five j^ears. He was for 
many years a prominent merchant and estab- 
lished the enterprising firm of D. Zenner & 
Co., which under vastly enlarged conditions, 
and the introduction of all modern methods, 
still holds the old name of D. Zenner & Co., 
controlled and managed by his son, Henry 
Zenner. Air. Zenner died at Cincinnati, Ohio, 
December 28, 1891. 





GEORGE WIXGATE 
XORKIS 

130RN at .Moniiioutli. .Mt-.. July ■■■M, 18'26. 
He was a citizLii of Athens from 
ISJS to ISdi). He was largely inter- 
ested with a number of prominent men from 
the East in the building of the Marietta & 
Cincinnati Railroad, and had as his associates 
such men as Colonel Orland Smith, E. P. 
Smith. M. M. Green, Mr. Dodge and a num- 
ber of others. ^Ir. Norris was physically of 
massive build, and his rugged strength gave 
him a strong personality, which was in con- 
trast to his gentle manners. He always had 
the regard, esteem and confidence of the com- 
munity. 

He died .at Cutler. Ohio, April -26. 1896. 



CAPTAIN 

THOMAS oNIURRAY 

DRAKE PILCH ER 

"Y^/AS born near Athens, April 2'2, ISS'i. 
His parents dying before he was six- 
teen, he came to Athens and served three 
years in learning the cabinet trade. In De- 
cember, 18,il, he went to California, where 
he remained until 18o4. In 1856 he entered 
business with W. B. Bartlett, under the name 
of Bartlett & Pilcher. In November, 1861, 
he assisted in recruiting Company H, 75th 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was elected 
captain, receiving his commission from Gov- 
ernor Tod. Owing to ill health he re- 
signed in May, 18(i2. He was the superin- 
tendent of the Herrold coal mine at the 
mouth of Monday Creek. He was afterward 
associated in business with Joseph Herrold 
and with Hon. E. H. Moore. His death oc- 
curred November IK 188.'3. 





C'llKISTOPIIKR 
J{KMIX(;'K)X SI1K1,1)()X 

Y\/''AS liorii .-it I'awUu-kut. H. 1.. July IJ, 
KS-J.i. Ahoiil IS.VJ lir moved to Alli- 
ens ,-111(1 worked .it the e.-irpeiiter trade until 
18()1. from which time he was in the grocery 
business until ISSt). His well-known care- 
fulness and accuracy made him competent to 
fill offices of trust, and for many years he was 
Townslii)) Trustee, Township Clerk and City 
Clerk, and assisted Hon. E. II. Moore, Treas- 
urer of the Ohio University, in the collection 
of college taxes. He was a citizen of Athens 
for forty-eight years, and died August 9, 
l.OOO. 



Dr. 
WILLIAM 1? LACK STONE 

"DORN in Virginia, May 'i K ITDti. When 
but a few years old his f.iniily removed 
to Pickaway County, and thin to Ross, near 
Bainbridge. He derived tin- most of 
his education by his own person.il .i])])lica- 
tion, as opportunities were limited. The first 
scliool he attended was two miles from the 
Blackstone cabin. He attracted the attention 
of Dr. Benjamin Doddridge, a thoroughly 
educated physician and graduate of Yale Col- 
lege, who taught him Greek, Latin and medi- 
cine. He attended college at Louisville and 
Cincinnati, and graduated in the year IS.'it. 
He came to Athens in 183!) and for forty 
years took high rank as a physician in all the 
Hocking Vallev. He died MareJi 17. 187,'). 





CHARLES WESLEY HARRIS 

DORN at Clarksburg, W. Va., April 7. 
1858, he came to Athens in 18(j3 and 
made that place his home the remainder of 
his life. He was elected a member of the 
Town Council, and for a number of years held 
the responsible position of cashier of the 
Bank of Athens. He was reserved in 
manner, but his correctness in business and 
Iiis faithful discharge of every duty endeared 
him to his associates, and his heroic struggle 
to ward off the disease which pursued him 
called forth the sincere sympathy of all who 
knew him. He died at Newcastle, Colorado, 
February 7, 1902. 



LEWIS HERRICK STEWART 

"pORN at Athens, Ohio, July 30, 1829. 
He was a son of Ezra Stewart, long 
a prominent citizen. He received his educa- 
tion and lived all his life at Athens, having 
married a daughter of Professor Williams, of 
the Ohio University. For many years he was 
cashier of the Athens branch of the State 
Bank of Ohio, and died at Chicago, 111., No- 
vember 22, 1863. 





Captain A. J. \ an \'()Rhes 



a 



1. Bishop E. R Ames, D. D. 
(Deceased) 



2. Bishop Earl Craxston 

3. Bishop David H. Moore 




BISHOP EDWARD K. AMES 



\X7^AS born in .Vines Townsl[i|). Atluiis 
County, Oliio, .M.iy 20, 1S0(J. He was 
of Knglish descent, the family being prouii- 
uenl in Colonial history. His grandfather, 
Sylvanus Ames, graduated at Harvard and 
died while a Chaplain of the army in Wash- 
ington's camp at Valley Forge. 

l^v remained ujjoii the farm till twenty 
years of age, when he entered the Oliio Uni- 
versity, and for several years supjjorted him- 
self. In 1828 the Ohio Conference met 
at Chillieothe and was attended hy 
yount; Ames, who formed the acquaintance 
of the presiding officer. Bishop Roberts, 
He was persuaded by Bishop Roberts to go 
to the Illinois Conference at Madison, and 



tiirougli a nunilier of .Methodist clergymen he 
was induced to open a school at Lebanon, 111, 
In August, 1830, he was licensed to preach 
by Rev, Peter Cartwright. In 1832 he was 
ordained a Deacon, and in 1834 an Elder, by 
Bisliop Roberts. He was the first Chaplain 
ever elected by an Indian Council. In 1818 
he declined the Presidency of Asbury Uni- 
versity, and in 1852 was elected Bishop. He 
was the first Methodist Bishop to visit tlie 
Pacific Coast. During the twenty-seven years 
that he filled the office of Bishop he dis- 
charged every duty with firmness, wisdom and 
a far-seeing ability, and his rulings were so 
just they left no ground for ajjpeal. 




COLLKGE STUEliT. .\THKNS, WO.Mli.Ns UOKMITOUV ON' THK RKJUT 




CAPTAIX 

j()sp:ph Mckeax 

DAXA 

T^ORX at Athens, March 22, 1822 He 
was the son of Professor Joseph Dana, 
wlio lield tlie Chair of Language in the 
Ohio University. At the early age of sixteen 
he hecame Deputy in the office of Clerk of the 
Court of Common Pleas. In 18i3 he was ap- 
pointed Clerk-in-Chief, holding this office 
and discharging its duties acceptably to the 
peo]3le for fifteen years. He was admitted to 
the bar in 1852. When the War of the Re- 
bellion commenced he tendered the services to 
the State of the local company of the Ohio 
.State Guard, being the first company from 
Athens County, which became Company C, 
.'5d Regiment, Ohio \'olunteer Infantry. In 1866 he entered into a law partnership with 
Gen. C. H. Grosvenor, which continued some fourteen years. He held numerous ])osi- 
ticms of honor and trust, as director of the Athens branch State Bank of Ohio, trustee Ohio 
University, member of Board of Education, Mayor of Athens and one of the charter members 
of the Knight Temiilars, Athens Commandery. He died at Athens, Ohio, July 10, 1881. 



JESSE DAVIS 

V\/AS born at Cadiz, Harrison County, 
Ohio. January 30, 1828, came to Ath- 
ens about 1845, and continued a citizen of 
that place until his death. He was engaged in 
the boot and shoe business, also was agent for 
Grange Stone Company, and conducted a gro- 
cery business for himself. He was elected to 
the Athens Council. His death occurred Feb- 
ruarv 1, 1885. 





EwiNc Hall, ok the Ohio I'nivehsitv. 
Two Views of the Soldiehs" MoxfMEXT and the College Campus. 

INSCRIPTION ON SOLDIERS' MONLMENT. 
Tlic Monument has three (.1) faces. West face has the fnllawine inscription:— "The people will ever remember how much 
of our national prosperity is due to the patriotism and valor of the men who died in the service of their country." 
" Deus et decorum est pro patria mori." 
Soutli&ist face h«s foUowins inscription:—" Athens County contributed i.«IO men jis soldiers and sailors in the War for the 
Cnii.n in ls«l tn ls«j." 

Niirtli face has following inscription:— "The people of .\thens County erect this monument in memory of those who volun- 
teered as soldiers and sailors in the defence of the L'nion and to perpetuate their Bovernment. ?;rected Anno Domini 1S9.1." 




STREET SCENES IN ATHENS, OHIO 

1. Court Street, Looking North from Washington Street 

2. Court Street, Looking South from Washington Street 




SCENES IN ATHENS, OHIO 

1. \V\>ni\nToN Street Looking East. First National Bank on (oisneh and the C'oi rt Hoi si 

2. First Fresu\tkria\ Cm rch with glimpse ok the Citv Hall 




OHIO UNIVERSITY 

First Buildixg — Oi d Center College — Erected in 1817 




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THE OHIO STATE INSANE ASMA'M 

WITH ViKws Ahound the Asvi.um 



PRESIDEXT:a.\D faculty of the OHIO rxn-ERSITY 




o Av r, '■ -^'^STOX Ellis, Ph. D.. LL. D President 

2. ^^^>LLVM Fairfield Mercer, Ph. D ^i-'-i resident 

Professor of Biology and Geolocy Brewster Owex Higley, Ph. M., Professor 

• f; ot Hhstory and Poh'tical Economy 

4. Charles ^^ illiam brPER, A. B., A. M., Ph. D., LL. D., Professor 
of Greek and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts 
o. Dayid J. EyAXs, A. M., Professor of t\ w tt 

Latin *^- ^^i'-"-^;' HooyER, Ph. I)., LL, D., Professor 

ot -Mathematics and Astronomy 



I-A( n.l^ OK llli: OHIO rM\ KUSITY 



I'uKiiKiiHK 'rmNiii.ii . A. H.. I'mftsxir i,( Ivlucalioiial 

M.-lli<>(l> 
Hi. I l)i NKi.K. A. M., AssiK-ialc Professor of (ircck and 

Priiiciiial of llic I'rcparatory Dcpartnu-nl 



;i. William B. Hkxtlky, Pli. I).. Professor of C'heniistrv 
4. Alhkht A. AiKLNsoN, M. S., Profesfor of Phvsies and 

IClcelrical Kiitrineerins: 




Os( Ali 

( 'lIUIS.\H.\. 

A. M., PIl 1)., 

Professor of 
Paidology 



10. 
Hd.son' 

MlLL.S, 

.V. M., 

Associate 
Professor of 
Matheniaties 



14. 

IllRAM 

I{(IY 

\Vn.-(,N, 

A. M., 

Associate 

Professor of 

Engli.sh 



FliAXK (". Do.\x, .\. B., A. M.. I'rofessor of Psychology and 
PedajfoKV 



l.'i. Fn.vNK 1'. BAriLMAN. .\ . B.. Ph. D.. Professor of the History 

and PriiK-ijiles of Education 



I'KKACHKH^ OF VrilKXS. OHIO 




1. Ukv. r. L. I...NVI;, 2. Hev. W. I.. Sn rz. I). I)., 

Pastor Christian Church I'a^tor M. K. Church 

3. Rf;v. Fathkr Matixgly. Catholic Cliurch 
4. Rkv. G. Walton King. 1). D., o. Rev. .Ioskph Wilson. .Ik.. 

Pastor Presbvt.-riau Church Pastor M I. Ziou (Colored) BaptLst C luirch 




Hon. henry LOGAN 



MAYOR OF AlIIFA'S 




I'liLU I'lN.-^Tl.HU ALU, 

City Marshal of Athens, Ohio 





; S MILL, AFHEN 



ROBERT WHITE 



;)N'E OF THK OLDEST LIVING RE-^IDEVTS OF ATHENS 



'1^7 AS born in Wartlu'iiwick. EiiiiLuul. July 
IT, 1S','.S. His early life was spent in 
agricultural ])ursuits. and the foundation was 
here laid tor the remarkable physical vigor 
which enabled him to endure hardshijjs and 
engage in continuous labor beyond that jier- 
fornied by the average man. 

A\'lun In- came to America he went directly 
to Athens. Ohio. By do.se economy he se- 
cured means to purchase a team and engaged 
in the coal business as a retailer, and for over 
thirty years, in heat and cold, in winter and 
summer, no more familiar object on tin- 
streets of Athens could be seen than " L'nele 
Bobby White " and his load of coal. His 
family consisted of six girls and six boys, for 
whom he always manifested the deepest af- 
fection. He is a member of the M. E. Church, 
and the advancing feebleness of age keeps 
him much of the time at the home of his son, 
1- red. V. White. If living, he will be eighty- 
one vears old Julv 17. l.')IH. 




AthensCounty. Gazette. 




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SoLDiKHs' Monument and 

College Campus 
"Sunxyside" Lookixc. 

North from Brick 

Plaxt 
"Washixgtox Street 

Looking West from 

College Street 
State Street Lookixc 

West 



rxivERSiTY Terrace, 

Looking North 
"Autumn Leaves," View 

IX College Campus, 

Looking East 
Court Street Lookixg 

.•>oi-TH FROM State 

Street 



College Street Looking 
South from Washington- 
Street 

Mulberry Street Lookixg 
East from Court Street 

"Old Flat Irox Square," 

" Currier Building" in 

Center 

Union Street Looking 

West from Court Street 




Mk. GEORGE STOCKHAM 

The well-known proprietor of the Criterion Hotel. 41st 

Street and Broadway, New York, who provifled 

and served the dinner at the Athens 

Home-coming, June 15th, 190-1. 




Captain A. H. Mattox 

Editoh "Thk Athkns Home Coming' 




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